Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Simon Wiesenthal

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:""Mankind."" Basically, it's made up of two separate words - ""mank"" and ""ind.""What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

George Smith

I tell our players a lot about some of those guys. I don't know if they realize the tradition. Maybe if they see it in the paper, it will mean a lot more to them.

Larry Brown

I think he just didn't want to shoot the ball. I thought he'd have 15, 20 assists. It was just one of those nights where maybe he didn't feel like he was on.

Robert Hansen

I think maybe the shock of the water froze his senses so he was not able to breathe. I can't understand myself what happened.

Gary Kurokawa

I thought maybe we would have more than what we're actually receiving.

Andy Roddick

I thought I played maybe better in the second and third sets than I did in the first set,

Mark Wilson

I thought it would be a lot more obtrusive than it was. I think maybe the next time it happens, that uncertainty will be gone.

Brian Barnhart

We can't get rid of them on the two-day (race weekends), but maybe we can at the three-day shows.

Paul Costa

He and I have been trying to work with the governor's office to work out an arrangement -- maybe a zero-interest loan,

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

Anita Roddick

Being good is good business

Anita Roddick

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Jeff Gundy

Turnovers are a skill thing and a responsibility issue.

Richard Bach

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

Richard Bach

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Robert Frost

The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.

Rita Mae Brown

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Rick Larsen

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.