Us History Quotes

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The history of mankind is his character.

This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.

History is history. What is done is done.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.

When history calls, history calls.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

History: gossip well told.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.