Us History Quotes

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

History is as Old as My Grandfather

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

If he continues like this then I think Messi will be the best player in the history of football.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Every thought is an afterthought.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

To study history is to study literature.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

No generation can escape history.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.