Us History Quotes
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic.
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.