Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Lord Acton

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

John Cena

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

You'd feel incomplete now if you don't have a hip nightclub.

Adrian McKinty

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

The judges knew us from last year. There were high expectations this year. With much of the team new, in many ways that was tough.

The key question for the market is whether they will signal a rate hike before the end of the year.

The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself

The typical pattern in American history is that when things are going well, we welcome immigrants. When they're going badly, we tell them to stay away.

The True Lord, the Formless One, is Himself in His Own Place. I have heard, over and over again, and so I tell the tale; as it pleases You, Lord, please instill within me the yearning for You.

Marie Brennan

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

David Carradine

You've got to be so hip to be into these things, and Quentin is that hip. Nobody I've ever worked with has been that hip to so much of that stuff.

Kevin Starr

All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state.

Joe Nedney

All of a sudden, it hit a pocket of wind,

These historic indictments matter because they demonstrate to Milosevic's victims that the world cares,

This is one of those times when history looks upon us to see where we are,

This is a longtime Scottsdale tradition. We're trying to keep the sense of our Western history alive.

This is a history we want people to know about.

This is a historic moment for me and all the skaters of Italy.

This is a high level that encompasses many different types of transactions, including new transactions that weren't even thought of when older standards were developed.

All his races, he's been right off the pace and has been able to keep himself out of trouble. Whether he can do that in a 20-horse field, I don't know.

A key issue for investors is how high the bidding war for the LSE could go.

Emo Philips

I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.

The housing market remains in the doldrums. With the housing market still slowing and households under pressure from high petrol prices, interest rates will remain on hold.

Nancy Pelosi

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the invention of historians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is written by the winners.

Og Mandino

Failure is... the highway to success.

Norman O. Brown

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Oliver Stone

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.