It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, really.

For us, it was an opportunity to add a player without subtracting a player. Our history here, usually we’re trading a player to acquire a player.

It’s a story that fails as history, but that’s why it succeeds as scripture — because it’s elliptical, … The story has the ability to be perpetually now.

The first thing I encountered on entering the museum was the earliest steam engine built in England. As I walked on, marveling at each successive mechanical wonder, I realized that I was witnessing the history...

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then—fire, earthquake, death! As if it...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which – grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – is arguably the first mandate for...

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of...

…neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop...

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the...

The conditions encountered so far have been rather reasonable. Past history tells us the Cape Horn leg is the toughest because it takes the fleet the furthest into the southern ocean.

Demokrasi Indonesia, yang banyak disalahpahami di luar negeri kami, didasarkan pada prinsip mufakat, bukan pada jumlah suara. Kami tidak lagi memakai sistem demokrasi Barat ini yang didasarkan atas suara terbanyak, dimana 51 persen suara berhak...

He’ll be remembered as a history maker. He won three state championships and set school records.

If history teaches us anything, it’s that governments are always right, and they always do what’s in the best interest of the people, even at the expense of their own political agenda. In every situation,...

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still...

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Perhaps the death of us all is called for in this time of emotional desperation. War is a product of the mind; only with the death...

I didn’t do it in 1066. But I’m only not guilty because I wasn’t quite alive then. The ferocity of the Normans not named Norman is underestimated in history, and I fear neither woman nor...

There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner...

History plays for keeps; individuals play for time.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism....

Despre comunism:„Tot ce am aflat după c teva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe păm nt este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această...

Burr had the dark and severe coloring of his Edwards ancestry, with black hair receding from the forehead and dark brown, almost black, eyes that suggested a cross between an eagle and a raven. Hamilton...

Kita umat Islam di Indonesia terikat pada adat-kebiasaan dan kebudayaan kita, dan ini mempunyai pengaruh pula pada Islam yang kita amalkan di tanah air kita ini.

Rumors are the children of truth.

It’s been a long journey. There’s so much history, so many people, different agendas.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back...

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Present has always been in comparison with past.

There are two kind of people in the world those who wish to be remembered, and those who are always remembered.

We’re going through probably the greatest transformation in American history of any city in this short period of time, … I just want to savor every moment of it.

When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of...

The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it...

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state...

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

We believe that more than 55 years of history cannot be effaced by sealing or demolishing structures.

I have only been the coach for a year, however, and I expect to turn this history around both in the playoffs and then at the finals in Germany.

Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and...

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

his history of anti-semitic and divisive, and intolerant comments.