Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

William Aldis

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

Larry Sabato

Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.

Cal Jillson

is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.

Megan Smith

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

Josh Cammack

I've been told the most wins in school history is 13.

Lin Ezell

I've been one of those lucky people to have been involved with history for my whole career, ... Not many history majors get to do that.

Confucius

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

The wine world is so big. Yes, there are styles of wines I don't like. Orange wine, natural wines and low-alcohol wines. Truth is on my side, and history will prove I am right.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Ben Okri

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Tim Baker

There's no need for me to speak to them.

Clive Barker

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

Adam Sandler

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.