Us History Quotes
The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.
Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!
If the food supply runs out, try trapping or hunting animals. For most people, this won't be easy. If you can't catch any animals, it's time to throw a Donner party.
Keep an open mind but a skeptical eye.
By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?
Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.
I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.
It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.
There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.
We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word—war.
Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.
To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense.
History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.
She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.
History is defined by people who don’t really understand what they are defining.
The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.p. 30
Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.
How queer it was for two lovers to suddenly turn into strangers?
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable
Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.
Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.
Part of our work as faithful Christians is to learn how to discern when, and by what means, to resist authority.
God long ago defined what it means to do evil. It is for violations of His standards that we are to be afraid.
Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory.
Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.
There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.
The greatest act of domestic terrorism in the history of the USA is currently in process and the culprits are the energy, electrical, electronics and wireless radiation industries.
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
