All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
The Germs’ contribution to history sucks as far as I’m concerned.
There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
There’s never been someone like me in history – a fighter like me only comes along every 1,000 years.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
You either make money, or you make history.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It’s not about money, it’s about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.
The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Manchester’s history is cotton and wool. Birmingham’s is iron and steel.
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
History has proved that dictators can’t last forever.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.
I’m focused on being the best, making history.
Sometimes you have to stand up for what’s right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you’re on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn’t have it for history. So I wouldn’t have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that’s what coaching is at every level: it’s about teaching.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.
Strip malls are history.
I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
