Us History Quotes

a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

Your condition does not determine your life history. It’s your decision in that condition that tells more about your destiny. Decide not to see the available as the preferable!

For us to change history, we first need to change the future.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

Those are the bad guys, right?”“Depends on who wins, I guess.

Oracle of Delphi:In my deep mystery I breatheyour fragrance swirling inyour odourless soulI return your mysteryrevealing your destiny deep inthe seed of your God Self

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.

In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

It [the Quit India Resolution] was very far from being the Gita, but like Gita it suffered from flood of explanations, commentaries, and interpretations.

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.

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

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

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

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.