Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernand Braudel

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

Herbert Hoover

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

Henry Miller

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

George Eliot

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Irving Kaufman

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Irving Kaufman

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

Chauncey Billups

Honestly, we were successful during the regular season, but that stuff really don't matter anymore. It's 0-0, it's all about Sunday night, 7 o'clock, nothing else really matters. The history really doesn't matter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Franz Grillparzer

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

Jennifer Stone

History repeats herself.

George William Curtis

While we read history we make history.

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Erich Fromm

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

John Calipari

How about that? That's the first time in the history of the school.

Bill Walton

How can you say that? That was the worst play in the history of the NFL.

Mike White

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

None of us really sell anything. Weaving is a passion and it just puts you in touch with your history to be able to make fabric.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Kris's retirement probably marks the end of a remarkable phase in the club's history.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Nick Harkaway

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

I was pretty impressed by the movie, especially as Hollywood history goes, but the story is kind of claustrophobic and isolated. You get no sense of what was going on in the wider culture,

Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.