History Quotes
-
I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel
-
Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
Baltasar Kormakur
-
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
Hannah Arendt
-
I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper.
Pawel Pawlikowski
-
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Abe Fortas
-
In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
Ellsworth Huntington
-
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
-
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
J. L. Austin
-
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
David Christian
-
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
Barry Hannah
-
A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.
David E. Sanger
-
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
Abdus Salam
-
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
Mark McKinnon
-
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.
Clara Barton
-
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
Andrew Marr
-
Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.
Jeff Sessions
