951 private quotes tagged history

“World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.”— Jon Meacham

“As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.”— Jennifer Granholm

“The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.”— Jon Meacham

“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”— Lech Walesa

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”— Mao Zedong

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”— Carl T. Rowan

“But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.”— George H. W. Bush

“It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”— Norman Mailer

“I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.”— Stephen Harper

“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.”— Madame de Stael

“Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.”— Spike Lee

“OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.”— James Nasmyth

“If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.”— David Suzuki

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”— Walter Bagehot

“The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.”— Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.”— Paul Harris

“We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.”— Anne Roiphe

“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.”— James Lovelock

“I think you can learn from history.”— Chuck Norris

“We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.”— Daisaku Ikeda

“Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.”— James Buchan

“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”— Howard Nemerov

“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.”— Bill Moyers

“If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.”— James Buchan

“The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.”— James Buchan