Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ross Levinsohn

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Simon Schama

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I don't think we've ever had anything like this in the history of the country.

John Key

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Damon Albarn

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Stacy Schiff

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

I get really sad when I talk about the house. It has more history than any place I've ever lived or probably will ever live again.

He was very scrupulous about anything involving the court's business. He said he is going to let history pass judgment on his role on that.

He would like to sell a big lump of it at very low prices, ... This is a moment in history where they know there is a huge demand.

I wish there was some kind of pill I could give them right now. We have a history of not doing as well as I'd like in league. We have to be more intense.

Gary Neville

Ole will receive the most incredible reception that any player has ever had in the history of this club.

Michael Hastings

She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life.

Since I was very little I knew I wanted to be involved in history.

Marco Tempest

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Jim Bishop

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Jean Chretien

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

James A. Garfield

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

James A. Baldwin

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

Jacqueline Carey

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

Christopher Hitchens

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

Hillary Clinton

From the theft of confidential cables to 21st-century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

Evita Peron

Time is my greatest enemy.

Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

George Santayana

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Meredith

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

G. M. Trevelyan

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

George W. Bush

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

George Orwell

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Jean Cocteau

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Fernand Braudel

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.