I want to bring back the club championship. This club has such a rich history. And I’m really big into member events. That seems like it’s fallen off the map here.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

Academic historians of the last hundred years or so get all stiff and tweedy when you suggest that people will go to all ends for the sake of their religion. They’ll assure you that religion...

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have...

I was the most perfect scapegoat in history. Nobody was better than I was.

Progress is hard on history.

Mister Cameron – I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for...

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity…when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or...

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

We’re at a point in our history where we need to make some tough decisions about how we want to live, work and play over the next several years or we are going … to...

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

In this bowl of stars we see the entire star formation history of Orion printed into the features of the nebula: arcs, blobs, pillars, and rings of dust that resemble cigar smoke. Each one tells...

Patriotism ruins history.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

History shapes the lives of all men, women and children … sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.

here’s a toast to Alan Turingborn in harsher, darker timeswho thought outside the containerand loved outside the linesand so the code-breaker was brokenand we’re sorryyes now the s-word has been spokenthe official conscience woken– very...

Nothing happens in history as an isolated event.

…most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in...

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they’ve had in history from Microsoft.

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.

…we’re wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the “invaluable mental power we call judgment.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

Never say more than is necessary.

I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full of globes of the night sky from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries....

A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

He is home now. He is free. History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measured his worth as a man — honest, compassionate, graceful, brave. He was the most...

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Today is a new day. Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want....

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after...

Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We, the choicest flower of Britain’s manhood, were hidden away in her most secret...

I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there...

Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun....

I’m not a historian, and I wouldn’t want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you’ll notice that the villains are always, always,...

This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a...

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift.If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark,...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient...

We know we’re not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.