951 private quotes tagged history

“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” — Daniel Libeskind

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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Failure is impossible.” — Susan B. Anthony

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

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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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“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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“I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'” — Elayne Boosler

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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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“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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“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.” — Luigi Pirandello

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

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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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“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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“History is always changing.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.” — Frederick Jackson Turner

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

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

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

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