Us History Quotes

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

History is the great propagator of doubt.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.