…As the evening wore on (the supper did not end until seven in the morning), the public were admitted to watch the festivities from the balustrade, and were offered biscuits and refreshments to keep them...

People will fall in love with you due to your character, but they’ll stay in love with you due to your attitude

Aku telah berusaha sekuat tenaga, tapi perjalanan masih jauh.

Kekayaan Indonesia selama ratusan tahun dirampok oleh perusahaan asing, tak ada dari keuntungan itu ditanamkan lagi di bumi Indonesia. Berbeda dengan seorang patriot yang mencintai tanah tumpah darahnya, bangsa yang menjajah kami tidak memelihara tanah...

Dari pertumpahan darah ini, dimana banyaj saudara-saudaraku menjadi korban, terbukti bahwa Indonesia tidak pernah menyerah. Kami tidak mau mengalah terhadap kolonialisme kembali, TIDAK!

Suatu waktu kita dapat mengibarkan bendera kita sendiri, bebas dari semua kekuasaan asing.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea...

Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come...

I know my Texas history. I’m proud to be part of it.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo times when...

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

Superior insight into history used to be exhilarating for radicals: if we can see more clearly than the Enemy what is really going on, then we can use this knowledge to advance our values. But...

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? … There’s the play that you’re telling, and then there’s the play that’s underneath that.

To expect to be able to score seven or eight [runs] is ridiculous. It hasn’t happened in the history of the game.

Adanya keragaman dalam Islam sungguh pun dasar utama dari ajaran islam ialah tawhid, yang mengandung arti penyatuan, telah terlebih dahulu disadari ulama-ulama Islam sendiri. Salah satu dari ulama itu adalah Syah Waliullah dari India. Ia...

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in...

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant...

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike,...

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.