Famous Quotes & Sayings

With 20/20 hindsight I think we just treated it too lightly.

Who's going to hire me at 60 years old when they can hire a 30-year old or a 40-year old?

Robert Harris

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

Stephen Kinzer

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Danny Boyle

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Condoleezza Rice

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

Ned Yost

But then again, you look at Prince and his capabilities, you know he's got a very, very high ceiling, too. So, it's going to b a very, very tough call.

Isiah Thomas

But now that they've done things this way, I hope they hold Rick Carlisle up to the same high standards they had for me.

Tom McCarthy

But now that person's skiing down a hill because of things you did for them. You get to see them smile. It's really a wonderful thing.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Amy Heckerling

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Amanda Seyfried

Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

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!'

We see it testing the high around $572, but there is a willingness in the market to go to $580.

Andrew Lansley

There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.

We are seeing the pipeline, or the planning and construction stage for new hotels, at a historic low this year.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

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.

Robin Williams

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Seamus Heaney

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

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

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

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

George W. S. Trow

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George Vecsey

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

Flea

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

Erik Erikson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

J. G. Ballard

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.