History Quotes

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I'm a big stupid history nerd.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.