951 private quotes tagged history

“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.” — Tom Ford

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“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.” — Carlos Fuentes

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“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.” — Jimmy Carter

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“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.” — Ellen Glasgow

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“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.” — Marge Piercy

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“I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.” — Tony Bennett

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“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.” — Colin Powell

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“I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.” — John Cleese

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“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” — Angela Carter

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“Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.” — Dante Alighieri

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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.” — Jon Meacham

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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“Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.” — Anita Baker

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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” — Benito Mussolini

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“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.” — Dick Gregory

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“The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.” — David Horowitz

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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” — William James

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“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.” — Margaret Fuller

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“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” — Moliere

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“All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.” — John Baldacci

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“Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.” — Tacitus

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