History Quotes

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

America has always imported history.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

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.