Us History Quotes

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.

To study history is to study literature.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

There is simply so much reason to believe the good news of Jesus Christ in history, in Scripture, as well as in our own experience that it would take a leap of faith not to believe in the gospel.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

History works itself out in the living.

History is merely gossip

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

History is the siren song of the soul.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.