It’s history in the making, but we still have one more game.

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation...

Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

In the end the war was Hitler’s war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him…He was...

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...

troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don’t want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They...

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

The successes we have enjoyed have not been down to three people. It is also true that each history has an end.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

A menudo se usa la historia como una serie de cuentos morales para aumentar la solidaridad de grupo o, cosa más defendible, según mi punto de vista, para explicar el desarrollo de instituciones importantes como...

History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

It appears tobe a fantastic breakthrough, although history cautions us to reserve a final judgment in dealing with North Korea.

I believe we are at a crossroads in the history of the Balkans as well as NATO, … The decisions we make in the days ahead will be crucial for us all.

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the...

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

History is time, time history.

It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the veryessence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberaleducation. It is the foremost approach to humanism,the lore of the...

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda – ‘mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom’ – u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mučenja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od...

I’m the type that thinks if you don’t learn from history, you’re doomed to repeat it.

The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we...

I think she made history. She’s tough, she’s good, she’s a lovely animal to train, you know?

The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or...

His acceleration and speed is unmatched in the history of the NFL. You can’t compare him to anyone.

To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

What evil has he done?” But the crowd shouts all the louder for Jesus’s death. “Crucify him! Crucify him!” (Mark 15:1–20). The scene is absolutely nonsensical. Never mind that outside the gospels there exists not...

Gannett Broadcasting has a long history of producing quality work and serving our communities. It’s wonderful to see the stations and individuals honored again for their hard work and dedication to providing powerful pictures.

Our old people noticed this from the beginning. They said that the white man lived in a world of cages, and that if we didn’t look out, they would make us live in cages too....

Whoever will take the trouble of reading the book ascribed to Isaiah, will find it one of the most wild and disorderly compositions ever put together; it has neither beginning, middle, nor end; and, except...

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best...

What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy – every kind reveals true fragments of our real history. A bulk of our real history can be found in...

The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as unlikely as the spontaneous generation of organisms. These doubts produced my observations on...

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin.

You’re writing a book about that? Wow, what fun!”Yes, it was fun, but it was also serious history. Pretty women do not fit into what we have come to think of as serious history. Real...

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.

Nyonya barangkali sudah mendengar, bahwa bagi orang Jawa tidak ada kegagalan hidup yabg lebih besar dari pada perempuan yabg tidak kawin, yang sekaligus merupakan aib.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken...

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier...