History Quotes

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

We are set to make very bad history.

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.