Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

William Wordsworth

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Gerard Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

Lawrence Horan

If it's done successfully, it will be the quote 'crowning glory' of his 21 years, ... there's a lot of risk for him personally, because if it's mishandled it goes down as something maybe he shouldn't have done. Staying on is something that's probably required on all fronts. Jack wants to make sure that his legacy is not marred by an acquisition that when handed off was not handled that well.

Tim Guter

He is the ultimate team player. He sacrificed the glory for the betterment of the team. Wherever we needed him, he played.

Brian Clark

Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.

Omar Wilkes

He never really talks about the glory days.

William Shakespeare

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

Beth Moore

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

Bruce Miller

What makes him so good is he's such a good kid on top of that, ... I've seen a lot of kids move in and say, 'When's my glory coming?' That's not Kendrick.

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

Cathy Moriarty

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cecelia Ahern

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

Carrie Underwood

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Carl Rogers

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.

Bill Bryson

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Bethenny Frankel

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

Bette Davis

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Ashton Kutcher

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.