History Quotes
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The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
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I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.
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London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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The Iranian regime has a history of using front companies disguised as humanitarian organizations.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.
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Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
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History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.
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History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
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It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.
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It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.
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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I've done more impeachments than anybody else in the history of the country.
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I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
