951 private quotes tagged history

“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.” — Tim Burton

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“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.” — Ang Lee

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“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.” — Norodom Sihanouk

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“That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.” — William McKinley

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“You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.” — Arthur Ashe

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“I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.” — Michael Phelps

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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — Virginia Woolf

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“I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.” — Tim Robbins

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“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.” — Eric Hoffer

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“All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.” — Neil Armstrong

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“The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.” — Madeleine Albright

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“You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.” — Etta James

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“You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.” — Tom Hiddleston

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“In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.” — Edward de Bono

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“I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.” — Nikki Giovanni

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“Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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“I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.” — Katy Perry

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“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.” — Rosa Luxemburg

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“The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.” — George McGovern

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“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.” — David Hume

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“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.” — Fred Allen

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