Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Taylor Mali

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

John Muir

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

Philip Roth

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Czeslaw Milosz

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Sophocles

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Joseph Addison

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

Henry Ward Beecher

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.