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.

Joshua Simmons

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

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.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Susan Cameron

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Dorothea Lange

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

Eric Hoffer

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Larry Kramer

I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

Emma Goldman

If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

Mark Clifford

They've got a lot of pride in their running game. We've got a lot of pride in our running game.

Jan Jensen

They take pride in the way their school looks. There is no graffiti.

Joe Peters

They take a lot of pride in being the Patriots, and we take a lot of pride in being the Crusaders.

Ron Gardenhire

It's not just about going out and bunting. It's about implanting things in their minds. This is what we have to do to win. You have to bunt. You have take pride in it. We want them to know we're very serious about this.

Jay Wright

It was crazy. We're a pretty defensive-minded team. We take pride in that. We just couldn't stop them.