History Quotes

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

History should be written as philosophy.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.