History Quotes

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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.