Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
The want to return to the fold doesn’t mean you can repeat history.
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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.
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology – the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Sometimes – history needs a push.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
World history is a court of judgment.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
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.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
It’s not about the past; it’s about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don’t know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
