History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

…not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always.

Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation....

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker

We have a long history and tradition with the Boy Scouts and we look forward to continuing that relationship. It’s a win-win situation all the way around.

He couldn’t drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn’t wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their savagery: these were the nicest man-eating barbarians a lonely wanderer could...

When you study history, you’re really studying yourself. Every bit of history I’ve uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

…onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade.

But I knew the truth and that’s why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is … Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since...

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

Fortunately, I got the positive answer and I think the rest is history.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the...

I don’t care what is written,” Meyer Landsman says. “I don’t care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son’s throat...

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

We’re definitely into the history. Columbia’s come a long way, and we want to see it go further.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third...

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

(The trip) was a total success. We were happy to host them and be a part of the history of the ship.

By journey’s end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling “the...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one...

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories...

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Prophet Muhammad rises to start his mission for Allah.When wrapped in profound meditation and sad, he felt himself called by a voices from heaven to arise “O you (Muhammad) enveloped (in garments)! arise and warn!...

Aku kira dan bagiku itulah kesadaran sejarah. Sadar akan hidup dan kesia-siaan nilai.

History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.

Bagaimanapun jalannya, sekali-kali jangan lelah untuk berusaha gigih membela semua yang baik.

Maybe your college professor taught that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That’s nonsense as well. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country...

I’m interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else.

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning...

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

Tame him? You can’t tame a Tower rat–they’re flea-bitten and vicious.””So are most men!” The girl smiled and stretched her cramped limbs. “Shall I tame one of them instead? They too make diverting pets, you...

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

May the scribes record it.

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our ‘EYE’ and Close our ‘I

thus with a kiss I die

I don’t know that history will play into it. They probably know all that stuff. We do feel like we’ve had a lot of success against them. At first I didn’t like having to play...

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.