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.

Henri Nouwen

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

Hattie McDaniel

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

Helen Mirren

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

John Barrowman

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

Jim Rohn

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Shirley Lasker

They took down all of those trees without getting permission or letting us know.

Anne Lang

There's always going to be some unknown work that comes up. Then it's just a matter of communicating with your people and letting them communicate back what they can and can't take on at that time.

Ron Nelson

It was big for our team to not get down after letting them come back on us. For us to be up 7-2 and let them back in it could have been bad.

Bob Barnett

We pride ourselves on not letting teams get what they want.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Anthony Browne

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Gerald Gray

To the man who got shot, I apologize.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Imre Kertesz

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.