Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natasha Trethewey

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

John Burton

I think about that case. I still have a picture of her in my work file; it kind of haunts you knowing it's still there.

Caroline Leavitt

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Whit Ayres

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Sun Yuxi

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

Dan Richardson

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Bill Hall

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles Manson

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.

Billy Wilder

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Kathi Glist

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

Byron Katie

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Nan McCarthy

It seems like people become intimate more quickly (in cyber-relationships),

Dan Zimmerman

It's not like meeting in a bar. It's somewhat of an intimate location. People on the train have pretty much the same interests. You see people every day, and you kind of get to know them.

James Levine

People are turning away from the more formal, traditionally posed wedding photos to a more intimate and natural approach,

Todd Brown

Competency means having the technical understanding ... teaching the intimate details,

Carroll Quigley

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

bell hooks

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self.

Deepak Chopra

The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body integration brings about renewal. Through conscious breathing and movement techniques, you can renew the body/mind and reverse the aging process.

Malaika Arora Khan

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

John Livengood

An independent (owner) who has established relationships with (his) clientele is a very important part of the industry.

Patricia Fripp

Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do

Christine Martino

This is a real enhancement to the relationship.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Andie MacDowell

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

Henry Winkler

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.

Alan Mills

Ultimately you have to really stay on top of these relationships if you want to be strong yourself,

Shakti Gawain

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

Matt Hasselbeck

They make you prepare. Just some of the things they do and all of the ways they come after you.

Jesus Fierro

They've come up. They are on the rise, but they've got a ways to go yet.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Andy Reid

Offensively, we've got a ways to go now. We need to get back on track.

Russ Kinnel

You really should find other ways to distinguish yourself.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Tommie Liddell

Different day, same old thing. Down the stretch, we couldn't find ways to convert.

Val Hiser

We give in the ways we can. This is something I can do.

Dick Hutton

You have to look at other ways of making money. That's not always easy.