I’m a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don’t have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
I love the fact that, if I don’t win multiple championships, that I probably won’t be mentioned amongst the other guys in Celtics history who’ve done it before. That type of stuff motivates me.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
I’ve always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don’t know why. I don’t like hot weather, and I don’t like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I’d love to go check it out.
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
History will decide if I’m a villain or a hero.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people – brutal.
My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
History is a vast early warning system.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
My dad said, ‘Go to college and take whatever you want.’ So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, ‘There’s no way I’m taking math and history.’ And right next to it was the line for the drama department.
My inspiration is love and history.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
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.
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
In some sense, I’m a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
A clear lesson of history is that a ‘sine qua non’ for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
