Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists,...

Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows. But history… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just… well, things happening one after another.

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties,...

All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

I just don’t see why the past has to matter.

That piece of history is about gone.

Yes, that’s how it was then, that part there we called ‘France’”. I was filled with the deep affection of nostalgia- and then I opened my eyes.

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father’s death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no...

The war which is comingIs not the first one. There wereOther wars before it.When the last one came to an endThere were conquerors and conquered.Among the conquered the common peopleStarved. Among the conquerorsThe common people...

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1905 five papers on entirely different subjects. Three of them were among the...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came...

We felt it was best suited to have our preparation based on that worst case, which in recent history was 1918.

St. Paul line.” Saloons, hotels, banks, stores, and services from smithing to tailoring sprang up in rail stop communities.

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to...

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy...

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

Another red-letter day in history.

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as ‘abominable … more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident...

Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.

The next 12 months will be unmatched in Polaroid history for number and breadth of new products coming to the market.

The history meant that someone like Todt would go work there. The history was what convinced Michael Schumacher to go there.

We learn from history that we don’t learn from history!

Negara Republik Indonesia tidak mungkin memerangi dirinya sendiri. Pilih satu di antara dua, Sukarno-Hatta atau partai komunis yang membentuk pemerintahan Sovyet di bawah Alimin dan Muso. Dengan rahmad Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, Sukarno akan memimpin...

INI. Ini leherku boleh potong… hayo, boleh penggal kepalaku… kalian bisa membunuhku …. tapi aku tidak pernah mau mengambil resiko untuk melakukan pertumpahan darah yang sia-sia, hanya karena kalian hendak melakukan sesuatu menurut kemauan kalian.

Adalah sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk menguatkan diri menghadapi hal yang paling buruk.

Engkau tahu apa artinya Indonesia? Indonesia adalah pohon yang kuat dan indah itu. Indinesia adalah langit yangbiru dan terang itu. Indonesia adalah mega putih yang bergerak pelan itu. Ia adalah udara yang hangat.Saudara-saudaraku yang tercinta,...

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development

For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient Western world and ensured that their secret would be hidden...

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has...

Between his dueling and military career, Jackson had been shot so many times that scholars says he “rattled like a bag of marbles” when he walked as a result of all of the never-removed bullets...

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

As additional precautions, Kranz requested that a two-hundred-foot radio antenna (called a deep-space dish) in Australia be added to the global network tracking and communicating with the spacecraft, and that additional computers at the Goddard...

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten...

What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone...

The historic step jointly taken by our two parties has been written into the history of the development of the cross-Straits relations. It is my sincere wish to make joint efforts with you to promote...

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form…The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

La historia es una forma de hacer valer la comunidad imaginada. Los nacionalistas, por poner un ejemplo, aseguran que la nación siempre ha existido en esa zona convenientemente vaga de la “niebla del tiempo”(…)En realidad,...

Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father took his bar exam in 1989, I may never know. Perhaps...

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

He supported the largest tax increase in Virginia history. He’s raised taxes in each and every office he’s held,

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

History is all about ‘what ifs

They’ve never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was...

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN’T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?