History Quotes
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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History develops, art stands still.
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I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.
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The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
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Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
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In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
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What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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Sir Clive Woodward summed it up best when he said everyone hates England. And it’s true. Because of the history that is involved, the surrounding countries with the social and historical context, that long-seated rivalry – you can feel that hatred of England.
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I do see religions as a repository for human thought and culture. There's no connection with the time of Christ other than through Jews or the Christians of the Holy Land. And if one side erases the other side, we've destroyed history.
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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
