Us History Quotes

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Literature is the history of the soul.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.