Us History Quotes

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

When you look back, history is not going to be kind to these last 16 years from 2000 to 2016.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.