Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should...

What history? What tradition? Losing four Super Bowls? Not selling out at (former home stadium) Met Stadium?

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy

…I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains and will remain alive in the memory of an infinite being...

MISUNDERSTANDING” arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

History has shown us time and time again that you don’t have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

Die größte Übeltat der protokollierten Menschheitsgeschichte ist der degoutante, mörderische Antigermanismus des 20. Jahrhunderts!

Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul...

I don’t compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

We all inherit damage from the past. We spread it like a virus and don’t generally think about it.

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them...

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I...

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce’s Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene...

Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking, … I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to...

I’m going to be with the Lord.”I wished I shared his confidence. For him, it was a priceless thing no one could take. I wished the fear of death was like the fear of a...

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and...

America.” This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.

Ernie got it,’ I said afterwards. ‘His experience taught him that you’ve got to fight for what’s right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.’...

They had it made in 20 minutes. They were talking about history and stuff. I don’t know.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision...

Last year had a lot of tradition and a lot of history and now we’re opening up something new — and it’s beautiful. It’s a new era of baseball. You definitely miss the old stadium,...

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time,...

Peran penting buku ini adalah untuk membuka mata bahwa kita semua tersandera kejahatan kemanusiaan masa lalu yang belum terselesaikan. Stigmasi tidak berhenti pada korban langsung yang sdudah uzur, tetapi juga terhadap keluarga termasuk perempuan dan...

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. – Forward

Rusia baik kepadaku. Aku berbuat bodoh bila aku berpaling dari Rusia, karena ia memberi begitu banyak.

Seseorang tidak mungkin mendarar, memuat senjata, mengisi bahan-bakar, menerima suplai, diberi pengamanan, laporan cuaca dan yang lain-lain, tanpa izin. Anda dan pemerintah Amerika bermain api. Apakah anda menyadari, bahwa kalau satu pihak menyokong pihak lawan,...

Aku mengerti bagaimana kecintaanmu kepada tanah air. Aku menghargai semangatmu itu. Tapi hanya itu yang kaoian miliki. Kalian juga perlu taktik yang bijaksana dan otak yang dingin.

Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari jiwa....

Feodalisme adalah milik masa lalu yang sudah mati, bukan milik Indonesia di masa depan.

My hobbies include urinating in empty apple juice bottles and then pouring the contents into kitty litter and trying to get the clumps to form shapes of historical figures.

This is the pen that was first used to write down these words. This is history. This happened. Now, go write your own history. But use another pen, because this one’s not only super glued...

Live long enough and nothing is news. ‘The News’ is ‘the new things.’ That’s fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that...

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Having an affair with your good friend’s wife while he’s in an institution and your wife is in a hospital ranks somewhere between Benedict Arnold and the guy who invented Girls Gone Wild on the...

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

history beats in longer periods than a man’s heart

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than...

You can’t be neutral on a moving train.

Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman – Zia ‘Gokalp (1875-1924)