Us History Quotes

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Well behaved women do not make history.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

History is all explained by geography.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.