Us History Quotes
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should use Greek letters.
In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.
History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.
History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.
In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.
America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.
Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
