History
If someone ever says you’re weird, just remember, every great person in history was considered weird. Embrace your weirdness and go conquer the world!
Author: Will FerrellTopics: Famous, Great, History
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
Author: Carlos SlimTopics: Famous, History, Ideas
I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.
Author: Mukesh AmbaniTopics: Achievement, Believes, Famous, History
Every point in history has its unique challenges, but also its unique opportunities.
Author: Larry PageTopics: Famous, History, Opportunities
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Author: Vladimir PutinTopics: Famous, History
The Chinese people are the creators of history and progress.
Author: Xi JinpingTopics: Famous, History
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Author: Joe BidenTopics: Famous, History, Positive
History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.
Author: Joe BidenTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to debate.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: History, Universe
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
Author: Umberto EcoTopics: History, Rich
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science.
Author: Upton SinclairTopics: History, Records, Sciences
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed
Author: Thomas HardyTopics: Achievement, Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history’s going to be kind to George W. Bush.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, History, Kind, Might, Thinking
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Idea, Life, Meaningful, Poisonous
I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.
Author: Ric FlairTopics: Career, Greatest, History
I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Readers
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
Author: J. C. ChandorTopics: Decent, Drama, Famous, High School, History, Interested, Motivated, Photography
I’m sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
Author: J. B. SmooveTopics: Era, Famous, Greek, History, Impactful, People, Roman empire, Talent, Talking, Victory
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Creativity, Evolution, Famous, History, Human, Human History, Improvements, Ingenuity, Innovation, Machines, Struggle, Triumph
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Actors, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful, Popularity, Possessed, Public
The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Examined, Famous, Feelings, History, Humanity, Imagine, Intelligence, Life, Meaningful, Reason, Truth
First, a man of sense would have known that a single experiment is not sufficient to establish a general rule even in sciences much less complicated than the science of government; that, since the beginning of the world, no two political experiments were ever made of which all the conditions were exactly alike; and that the only way to learn civil prudence from history is to examine and compare an immense number of cases.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Civil, Complicated, Establish, Experiment, Famous, Government, History, Life, Meaningful, Political, Rule, Single, Sufficient
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Historical, History, Life, Meaningful, Nation, Studied
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Dignity, Famous, Feelings, Having, History, Life, Meaningful
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Fear, Feelings, History, Indeed, Life, Meaningful
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Dignity, Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful, Succeed
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Poetry, Rise
History begins in novel and ends in essay
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Essay, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Incident, Life, Meaningful
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Essential, Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful, Nature
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Christ, Famous, History, Life, Meaningful
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Famous, God, History, Learn, Meaningful, Neither, Redeemer
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: History, Learn, Neither
I want to show the world that Latinos have talent and we’re here to make history.
Author: J BalvinTopics: Famous, History, Impactful, Latinos, Make, Motivational, Showing, Want, World
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Effort, Famous, History, Indestructible, Meaningful, Prove, Social
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Famous, Freedom, History, Human, Meaningful, Natural
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, History, Money, Money changers, Records, Violent
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]
Author: James MadisonTopics: Church, Europe, Famous, History, History of World Culture, Organized-religion, Politics, Religion, Separation, State
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Highest, History, Individual, Mankind
Our cause is for the truth, for righteousness, For anyone who e’er oppression knew. ‘Tis not rebellion for the sake of one, ‘Tis not a cause to serve a priv’leg’d few – This moment shall resound in history For ev’ry person who would freedom know! So Biggs, stand with me now, and be my aide, And Wedge, fly at my side to lead the charge – We three, we happy three, we band of brothers, Shall fly unto the trench with throttles full!
Author: Ian DoescherTopics: Charge, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Sake
A business man who was also a biologist and a sociologist would know, approximately, the right thing to do for humanity. But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. History, some day, will have an excruciating laugh at their expense.” I was not surprised when I had my.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Business, History, Hungry, Society, Stupid
When ‘Midnight’s Children’ came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
Author: Iain De CaesteckerTopics: Children, Experiences, Famous, Fantasy, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that’s about all. And I’ve traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn’t know very much about it, really.
Author: I.M.PeiTopics: History, Obviously, World
I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that’s about all. And I’ve traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn’t know very much about it, really.
Author: I.M.PeiTopics: Civilization, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive
The history of American women is all about leaving home—crossing.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, History, Home, Leaving
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Freedom, History, War, Women
When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Freedom, History, Women
“History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.”
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Morality, Positive, Tragedy
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it’s really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there’s been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, History, Ideas, Identify, Impact, Recognized
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It’s just great to let other people carry the narrative.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, History, Life, Narrative, Opinion, People, Time
The history of American women is all about leaving home – crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, History, Home, Independent, Jobs, Ocean
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Fighting, Freedom, History, Struggling, War, Women
It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren’t supposed to do.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Abandoned, Country, Famous, Female, History, Rules, Women
Just because history says it isn’t possible doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions.
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Exception, Famous, History, Mean
Who I am as an architect and the history of my work – that’s clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like
Author: Thom MayneTopics: Building, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hire, History, Meaningful
I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise
Author: Thierry HenryTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Idea, Meaningful, Obsessed, Paradise, Positive
For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I’ve ever seen
Author: Thiago SilvaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Greatest, History, Messi, Positive
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Author: Gael Garcia BernalTopics: Discourse, Famous, Hate, History, Insight, People, Spark
All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager… he is the best coach in history
Author: Thiago AlcantaraTopics: Coach, Famous, Feelings, History, Manager’s
There are people you can say you have seen play, such as Pele or Maradona. But Messi is unique, out on his own, and is going to make history. I can say I saw Messi play.
Author: Thiago AlcantaraTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Play, Unique
Aaranya Kaandam’ is not the biography or history of a gangster but a page out of the life of a gangster. It is like a day in his life.
Author: Thiagarajan KumararajaTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
Author: Kanye WestTopics: Busy, Famous, Feeling, History, Read
When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history
Author: Therese FowlerTopics: Doubt, Famous, Feelings, History, Idea, Meaningful, Wrong
The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Connection, Historical perspective, Historically, History, History of World Culture, Hit, Human History, Human Life, Loveable, Loved, Lovely, Place, Places, Rich, rich opportunities, Richest, Times, Times of difficulty
Baseball is a game of history and statistics, but it’s also a game of heart and soul
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Heart, Heart Rate, History, Hit, Soul, Soulful, Soulmate, Statistics, Statue, Working hard, Workings
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, ‘Le Voyage’ features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Famous, History, Man, Moon, Pain, Space
Boy, you’re good at figuring things out. Isn’t he? Except that if anybody’s the devil in this room it’s _you_, buster.” An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. “I’ve seen you before. I know you, all right, preacher man. Age after age, you come back. You always lead the crusades. You’re so damned golden-tongued, other people just flock to die for your causes. You die with them, it’s true, because you’re stupid enough to believe your own great lies; but you always come back again somehow. Oh, I know _you_.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Evil, Famous, History, Religion
People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don’t make it into the history books much. They don’t do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Contribute, Die, Famous, History, Human, Lives, Millions, Misery, Mortals, People, Recognition, Sadness, Sorrows, Work
I don’t think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It’s instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That’s why I write science fiction — even though the term ‘science fiction’ excites disdain in certain persons.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Descendants, Famous, History, People, Science Fiction, Technology, Thinking
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity
Author: Theresa RebeckTopics: Challenge, Engages, Famous, Feelings, Great, History, Humanity, Intellect, Life, Meaningful, Spirit
I believe in monogamy if that’s what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Couple, Culture, Famous, History, Involvement, Monogamy
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Good, History, Meaningful, Past, Social, Sound, World
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today’s half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again – and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Disaster, History, Idea, Important, Meaningful, Recycled, Tried
History is the memory of a nation
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, History, Life, Meaningful, Memory, Nation
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Created, Famous, Feelings, Genius, Great, History, Idiot, Life, Villages
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, History, Human, Life, Meaningful, People, Politicians
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them – instead of answering their arguments
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Meaningful, Political, Studies
It’s not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Budget, Current, Economic, Environment, Famous, History, Recession
History is on the side of the regulators.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Famous, History, Regulators, Side
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, History, Kingdom, Meaningful, Pompously, Sound, World
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Calling, Creator, Dishonor, Famous, Grossest, History, Paltry, Stories, Throughout, Vices
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Cruel, Everything, Famous, History, Humankind, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, My Part, Positive, Religion, Served, Sincerely
It’s not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Budget, Economic, Environment, Famous, History, Leading, Recession
History is on the side of the regulators.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Famous, History, Regulators, Side
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Capitalism, Countries, Famous, Free market, Free trade, History, People, Recommended
Israel is excessively joined to America, also affected by America. It ought to be associated with Europe. America depends on folklore – the liberated person, the individual, the open boondocks. Europe is increasingly aware of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your personality through history.
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Depending, Depends, Fans, Historically, History, History of World Culture, Individual, Individual achievements, Individual Choices, Join, Joined
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man’s blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. This is a Republic. The greatest in the history of the world. I want this country to continue as a Republic.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Country, Famous, History, Money, Power, World
If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Famous, Haiku, History, Wanted, Write
There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history – military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what’s generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, History, Interest, Military, Storytelling, Thinking, War
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, God, History, Lies, Meaningful, Times
As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Decent, Emotion, Famous, Greedy, History, Human sympathy, Republican, Science
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Famous, Hell, History, Life, Modern, Nation, Political, Social, Study
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, History, Military, Records, Valuable
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Age, Dignity, Famous, History, Legend
History is always personal—never more so than for those who find theirs is written by the enemy. It strips the defeated and the displaced of their dignity. It is a posthumous insult
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Always, Dignity, Historical Continuity, History, History of World Culture, Hitting, Instructions, Insult
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Confession, Dominant, Famous, Figure, Historians, History, Jesus, Penniless, Preacher
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character – meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Built, Character, Condition, Existed, Famous, History, India, Meditatiive, Peaceful, Philosophers
Instead of understanding that they were the beneficiaries of history, they began to believe that they were the creators of it.
Author: H. G. BissingerTopics: Creator, Famous, History, Lack of Understanding
Our democracy’s history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate – people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.
Author: Gabrielle GiffordsTopics: Famous, History, Names, Numbers, Powerful
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there’s a history behind the piece I’m wearing.
Author: Gabrielle AnwarTopics: Buying, Famous, History, Inspirational, Store, Vintage
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Domination, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, General, History, Injustice, Meaningful, Rule, Unjust
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Dream, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Forward-Thinking, History, Innovation, Inspiration, Life, Meaningful, Optimism , Past, Perspective, Positive, Visions
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: History, Hit, Leading, Leads, Lesson, Letting go, Male friends, Man, Remember
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
Author: Theodor HerzlTopics: Historically, History, History of World Culture, Hitting, Home, Home life, Homeless, Jews, Promote, Reason, Reasonable
The duty of the writers is not to preserve the language but to open the way for it in history.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Duty, Famous, History, Inspirational, Language, Preserve, Way
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Author: Rudyard KiplingTopics: History, Stories, Taught
One of the things that’s important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Create, Family, Famous, History, Important, Narrative, Things
This team has done something the past two days that should go down in history as an incredible accomplishment. And what David Ortiz has done is miraculous. He’s carried us on his shoulders.
Author: Gabe KaplerTopics: Famous, History, Incredible, Outstanding., Performance, Team
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Drama, Hear, Heart, Heart Rate, Heartbeats, History, Hitting, Natural, Natural curiosity, Natural Disaster, Negative, Negative Impression
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
Author: Iggy PopTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say ‘okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.’
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: Famous, First, Gymnastics, History, Influence, Inspirational, Positive Impact, Possible, World
I don’t know where this is coming from. What’s wrong with my hair? I’m like ‘I just made history and people are focused on my hair?’ It can be bald or short, it doesn’t matter about my hair. Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.
Author: Gabby Douglas
Topics: Famous, Focused, Hair, History, People
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: False, False gods, Historically, History, Hit, Mind, mind of state, Nothing, Notice, Temple, Temporarily
The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Famous, History, Impartial, Time, Truth
Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: History, Romances
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Courage, Discipline, Famous, Frequently, History, Military, Resources, Triumphs
The History Of The Universe In Three Words
CHAPTER ONE
Bang!
CHAPTER TWO
sssss
CHAPTER THREE
crunch.
THE END.
Author: Iain BanksTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Universe
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Famous, Fear, Forget, History, Inspirational, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Past, People, Teaching
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Famous, Fear, History, Inspirational, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Nothing, Past, Teaching
In the future, I still need to perform well and I still need to win marathons. But I feel more than anything that I need to make history.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Life, Marathon, Meaningful, People, Perform, Well
I want to go down in history as the best marathon runner, and for future generations I want to be a role model as a runner as well as a person.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Down, Famous, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivational, Person, Runner
I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Famous, History, Human, Human Being, Inspirational, Limited, Meaningful, Motivational, Running
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
Author: Fidel CastroTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Capabilities, Capacity, Education, Historical Continuity, History, History of World Culture, Hit, Lightning, Like, Like me, Novel
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Europe, Faith, Famous, Government, Happy, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Religious
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don’t know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
Topics: Dead, History, History of World Culture, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
Topics: Dust, Duty, Historically, History, History of World Culture, Lesson, Letting go, Story, Storytelling
Without social history, economic history is barren and political history is unintelligible.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Economic, Famous, History, Political, Social, Unintelligible
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Definition, Famous, History, Inspirational, Negative, People, Politics, Social
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Education, Famous, Historical, History, Inspirational, Past, Value
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, People, Priest
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Past, Present, Real, Remember, True, Uncertain
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
Author: G. M. TrevelyanTopics: Evolution, Famous, History, Inspirational, Interesting, Long, Man, Pageant, Space
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.
Topics: Famous, Generation, Historical perspective, History, Inspirational, Life, Poetry, ThinkingEducation…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Topics: Education, Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Non-fiction, Reading, Social-commentary, WorthDoes history record any case in which the majority was right?
Author: Robert A. HeinleinTopics: History, Majority, Record
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Author: Robert A. HeinleinTopics: Generation, History
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Factor, Force, History, Violence
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Doubt, Famous, Fear, History, Hope, Inspirational, Intelligent, Life, Light, Meaningful, People, Person
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Deserves, Famous, History, Meaningful, Posterity, Preserves
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Errors, Famous, History, Infirmities, Instruction, Life, Mankind, Meaningful, Past, Unrolled, Volume, Wisdom
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Ambition, Disorderly, Famous, Greater, Historical perspective, Histories, History, Hypocrisy, Life, Lust, Meaningful, Miseries, Pride, Revenge, Sedition, Train, Ungoverned, World
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Dead, Famous, Historical perspective, Histories, History, Inspirational, Life, Living, Meaningful, pact
History shows that the devout Muslim fundamentalists are one of the most lethal threats the world has ever known.
Author: Hal LindseyTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Threat
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Historical perspective, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Century, Discovery, History, Significant
My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.
Topics: Down, Famous, History, Life, Meaningful
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.
Topics: Everything, Everywhere, History, History of World Culture, Hit, Nature of prayer, Nature of success, Union, United
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Great, History, Stream
History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won’t, because most historians are on the left.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Fairly, Famous, Historians, History, Probably
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
Author: G. H. HardyTopics: Achievement, Enduring, Famous, History, Intrinsic, Prove, Worth
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Earth, Famous, History, Life, Meaningful, Priceless
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Pathetic
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Centuries, Famous, History, Moment, Precious, Time, Unique
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Conflicts, Economic, Famous, History, Population
Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Exceptions, Famous, History, Inspirational, Norm
I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Fall, Fallen, Forward-Thinking, Handle, History, History of World Culture
The search for nirvana, like the search for utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Famous, History, Hit, Hitting, Life, Lightning, Like, Like me, Meaningful, Requirement, Research, Reset
Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Culture, Famous, Feelings, Healing, Health, History, Hit, Hitting, Life, Meaningful, Philosopher, Philosophers, Relief, Religion, Religious Differences, Universe, University
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Conflicts, Disbelief, Famous, History, Hope, Inspirational, Sense of astonishment, Shock, Study, War
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Dealing, Famous, History, Inspirational, People
This Interaction Will Go Down In History As One Of The Sassiest Moments On Television.
Author: Gordon RamsayTopics: Famous, History, Insult, Interaction, Sassiest Moments, Television
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Author: Eckhart TolleTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Discovered, Famous, Gravity, Harnesses, History, Meaningful
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Motivated, Talent
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Course, Famous, History, Life, Long, Meaningful, World
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Different, Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Spirit
It’s inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor to the kings and queens of history.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Famous, Figure, History, Marry, Meaningful
The upward course of a nation’s history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Topics: Course, Famous, History, Meaningful, WomenIt is through this lens of history that we should view the conflicts of today, and so give us hope for tomorrow.
Author: Queen Elizabeth IITopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Today
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Famous, History, Make, Nothing, People, See
Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society – its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions – rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, History, Hundred, Meaningful, Political, Society, Throughout, Transformation
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, World
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Earth, Famous, History, Meaningful, Normally, Person, Role, World
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Famous, History, Old Men, Practical, Stupid, Stupidity
There is no story that is not true.
Author: Chinua AchebeTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Old Story, Story, Storytelling, Straight
I know the history, but we are a different generation.
Author: Patrick MahomesTopics: Different, Famous, Generation, History
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
Author: Douglas AdamsTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Nature, Periods, Time
You can put people’s feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we’re constantly creating our own history.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Famous, Feelings, History, History of World Culture, Life, Meaningful, People, People’s Opinions, Rust, Sacred fire
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Author: Otto von BismarckTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
The statesman’s task is to hear God’s footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
Author: Otto von Bismarck
Topics: Famous, Footsteps, History, Past, Statesman’s
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
Author: David BowieTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful
What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
Author: Otto von BismarckTopics: Famous, History, Learn, Meaningful
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Author: P. T. BarnumTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Write
The history of Money getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, Money getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in a great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges, and churches.
Author: P. T. BarnumTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, General, History, Meaningful, Money
I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.
Author: David BowieTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Recycle
Let us strive for the impossible. Remember the great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Achievement, Famous, Feelings, History, History of World Culture, Important, Impossible, Life, Meaningful, Men of thought., Mental, Strive, Throughout, Throwing
Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed impossible.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Achievement, Famous, Feelings, Great, History, History of World Culture, Impossible, Life, Meaningful, Strive, Succeed Greatly, Successful
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
Author: Nicolaus CopernicusTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Study
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful
In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Encouraging, End, Endeavor, Explore, History, Hitting, Workings, World
There was a peculiar sensation of the duality of time — the swift rush of events that characterizes all our lives — and the ponderous parade which marks the aging of the universe. Both kinds of time were evident — the first, by the routine events of the flight, whose planning and execution were detailed to fractions of a second — the latter by rocks around us, unchanged throughout the history of man — whose 3-billion-year-old secrets made them the treasure we sought.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Famous, Flight, Fractions, History, Meaningful, Planning, Routine, Sensation, Time, Treasure, Unchanged
A century hence, 2000 may be viewed as quite a primitive period in human history. It’s something to hope for.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Century, Famous, History, Hope, Human, Meaningful, Primitive
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Dedicated, Disappointed, Famous, Flight, Generation, History, Immersed, Meaningful, Times
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
Author: George S. PattonTopics: Experiences, Facing, Famous, History, Importance, Inspirational, Learning, Others, Unpredictable
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Cultivate, History, Human, Human behavior, Human Being, Invention
Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Happen, Happening, Historically, History, Interested, Interesting, Moment, Plain, Planet, Water
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Famous, History, Life, Lost, Lot, Meaningful, Medicine, War
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Century, Energy, Famous, History, Meaningful, Remember, Technological, Twentieth
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Famous, History, Meaningful, Reading, Regret, Science
History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Choices, Famous, History, Meaningful, Random, Sequence, Unpredictable
Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: End, History, Times
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Concerned, Famous, History, Past, Philosophy, Reason
World history is a court of judgment.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, History, Judgement, Meaningful, World
History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Development, Famous, History, Idea, Inspirational, Nature, Spirit, Time
Topics: History, Law, Literature, Party, Study
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony – periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, History, Periods of happiness, Periods of harmony, World
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
Author: MontesquieuTopics: Communication, Famous, History, Meaningful, People
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, Freedom, History, Progress, World
The History of the World is nothing but the development of the Idea of Freedom.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Development, Famous, History, Idea of Freedom, Inspirational, World
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, Happiness, History, Overshadowed, Periods of happiness
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, History, Learn, Life, Man, Nothing, Teach
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Experience, Famous, Government, History, Never Learned Anything, People
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Famous, History, Learning, Observation
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Author: Martin HeideggerTopics: Famous, Historically, History, Meaningful
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Famous, History, Meaningful, People
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Alone, Famous, History, Meaningful
It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Famous, Happened, History, Learned, Legend, Loved, Meaningful, Traditions
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars–all over Europe, all over the world. Sometimes in the private interest of royal families, Satan said, ‘sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose–there is no such war in the history of the race.‘
Author: Mark TwainTopics: Europe, Families, Famous, History, Meaningful
Don’t forget your history
Author: Bob MarleyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Forget, History, Learning, Life, Meaningful
Margaret Walker’s work emphasizes the importance of celebrating and honoring African American culture and history.
Author: Margaret WalkerTopics: Culture, Famous, History, Honoring, Importance, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Work
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Europe, Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Philosophy
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Famous, History, Hope, Inspirational, Moving, Tragedy
It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Famous, History, Hope, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Task
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Famous, First, History, Meaningful, Television, Time, Young
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Culture, Famous, History, Knowledge, Meaningful, Origin, People, Roots, Tree
Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Famous, History, Make, Reading
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Life, Meaningful, Own, Powerful
No generation can escape history.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Escapes, Famous, Generation, History
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Famous, History, Lasting Impact, Mistakes
I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person.
Author: Marcel ProustTopics: Famous, History, Longer, Meaningful, Past, Person, Reliving
The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Build, Change, Confidence, Famous, History, Meaningful, Propaganda, Victory, World
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars. Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars; we actively participate in them.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Famous, History, Opposed, Progressive, War
History is full of surprises
Author: Arthur AsheTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Surprise
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Famous, Great, History, Knowledge, Meaningful, Movement, Party, Political, Possesses, Possibly, Practical, Profound, Revolutionary, Theory, Victory
History is a symptom of our disease.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Disease, Famous, History, Meaningful
We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.
Author: Arnold SchwarzeneggerTopics: Doctor, Famous, Heart, History, Life, Meaningful, Time
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Civilization, Famous, History, Meaningful, Struggle, Triumph, Years
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Alone, Famous, Force, History, Meaningful, Motive, People, World
I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: History, Product, Recognised, Recognized
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Author: Mae WestTopics: Famous, History, Interest, Meaningful
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had
Author: Novak DjokovicTopics: Famous, Feelings, Harder, History, Life, Meaningful, Past, Succeed
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on
Author: Novak DjokovicTopics: Face, Famous, Feelings, History, Hope, Lack of direction, Life, Meaningful, Ready
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia
Author: Novak DjokovicTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Imagine, Meaningful
Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
Author: Novak DjokovicTopics: Famous, History, Important, Life, Meaningful, Nobody
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Courage, Courageous, Dream, History, Live
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall – think of it, always.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Despair, Famous, History, Love, Meaningful, Murderers, Remember, Time, Truth
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Course, Faith, Famous, History, Meaningful, Unquenchable
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Famous, Generation, History, Meaningful, Times
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Characters, Famous, History, Instinct, Meaningful, Movies, Playing
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Famous, History, Life, Meaningful, Science, Succeed Greatly, Wisdom
In the history of the hip hop world, there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
Author: Nicki MinajTopics: Ability, Famous, Female Rapper, History, Inspirational, World
History is a vast early warning system.
Author: Norman CousinsTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Human System, Life, Meaningful, System
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Author: Norman CousinsTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Library, Life, Meaningful, Room
Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it’s necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything – that’s part of how you teach people they can’t do anything, they’re helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.
Author: Noam ChomskyTopics: Culture, Empowering Message, History, Recognized, Teach, Technique
Any time a country transitioned to a flat currency, they collapsed. That’s just world history. You don’t have to know about cryptocurrency to know that
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Famous, History, Life, Time
The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Famous, History, Inspirational, Meaningful, Scientists, World
If you don’t know your full-throttle history—the whole story of how you came to where you are—it’s kind of hard to put things together
Author: Nipsey HussleTopics: Famous, Hard, Hard Part, History, Life, Meaningful, Story
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Human, Ignorance, Meaningful
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he’s the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can’t prove it, I can’t put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: Faith, Greatest, History, Jesus Christ, Mankind, Universe
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go
Author: Anthony BourdainTopics: Everything, Famous, Feelings, Food, History, Life, National
Sierra Leone is still scarred by the war, but the people have invested a great deal of courage and hope in the truth and reconciliation process, … It is vital that the government acts on the (Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s) recommendations to ensure that history will not repeat itself.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Courage, Famous, Government, Great, History, Life, Still, Truth, War
Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‘Okay.’ And then I sit down and they say, ‘It’s math.’ ‘No! Not math! English, history, anything!’
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Famous, History, Jokes, Life, Meaningful
People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
Author: Terry PratchettTopics: Experiences, Famous, History, Meaningful
Read no history–nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: History, Life, Theory
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: Famous, Feelings, History, Learn, Life, Meaningful
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Ability, Courage, Development, Disturb, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Positive, United States, Violence
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Historical Continuity, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivates, Motivational, Think, Thoughts, Work
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Honour, Life, Meaningful
I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.
Author: Max VerstappenTopics: Famous, Good, History, Interested, Life
Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Famous, History, Literally, Meaningful, Moves
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.” -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk – Pygmy)
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Famous, History, Life, Meaningful, People
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Famous, Force, History, Meaningful, Struggle, Struggling
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks
Author: Anais NinTopics: Create, Energy, Engages, Experiences, Families, Famous, Feelings, History, Hold, Home, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Author: Muhammad AliTopics: Chance, Famous, God, History, People, Wanted
We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Civilization, History, Iraq, Responsibility, United States
I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Economy, Famous, History, Meaningful, Million, Positive, Tax
I don’t deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn’t because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
Author: B.F. SkinnerTopics: Childhood, Children, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Operate, Positive
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Himself, Historical Continuity, History, Inspirational, Learn, Learning, Life, Life Cycle, Meaningful, Metaphysical, Passion, Passionate
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Compassion, Complete, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Himself, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Revolution, Rewrite
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Learn, Lesson, Level, Life, Meaningful, Taste, Teacher, Team
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Age, Change, Different, Experiences, Facts, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Lesson, Level, Life, Meaningful
I realize that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realize that we are just clowns for hire.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Actors, Change, History, Realized
The Oxen and the Axle-Trees A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.” Those who suffer most cry out the least.
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Emotion, Empowering Message, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Leads, Learning, Lesson, Level, Life, Life Cycle, Light, Meaningful, Positive, Stories, Story, Stranger, Strategy, Strong
You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Famous, History, Vilified
I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: History, Month
I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Author: Morgan FreemanTopics: History, Month
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Discrimination, Famous, History, Race, Religion, Women
“For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTopics: Achievement, Government, History, Resources, Success, Survives
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: History, Independent, Interest, Pernicious, Resposible, Successful, War
It’s interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I’ve proved since my career I’ve surpassed them as far my popularity. I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
Author: Mike TysonTopics: History, Interesting, Popularity, Surpassed
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.
Author: Mahmoud DarwishTopics: History, Humanize, Involved, Poet
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Author: Milan KunderaTopics: Criticism, Fantasy, Forgiveness, History