Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. Whitney Brown

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Oscar Arias

During the 41 years that have elapsed since Costa Rica abolished its army, our fundamental freedoms have never been threatened, nor do we know a shameful history of repression.

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history.

Bob Newhart

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bill Bryson

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Rory Stewart

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Paul Bettany

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.

We want to make history. There's only been one other team who has done it. And who knows how long ago that was.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is the great propagator of doubt.

A. J. P. Taylor

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

A. N. Wilson

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

A. S. Byatt

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

We can be very proud. There aren't many times you can set history like that.

Sergei Ivanov

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.

We have a history of accretive transactions that have significantly benefited shareholders.

Jan Morris

We're working on understanding what the words mean and the history of it as well because it's such a huge part of American history and our culture. If we don't preserve our culture, who will?

Robert Zoellick

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

Octavio Paz

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

Philip Roth

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

We have made history here today. We will not stop until we are satisfied.

Mikhail Saakashvili

We want to turn this page of history for this country.

Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history

Alan Greenspan

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Adam Weishaupt

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.