951 private quotes tagged history

“Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.” — Stephen Ambrose

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“Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.” — Andrew Weil

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“We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.” — James Lee Burke

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“I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.” — Antonia Fraser

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“In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?” — Manuel Puig

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“Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.” — Eric Liu

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“I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.” — Zoe Saldana

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“Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.” — Arthur Henderson

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“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.” — Robert Caro

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“The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.” — Jo Bonner

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“History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.” — Howard Nemerov

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“The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.” — Harold Wilson

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“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.” — Howard Nemerov

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“We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.” — Arthur Henderson

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“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.” — Arthur Henderson

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“And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.” — Julien Benda

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“If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.” — Ed Koch

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“But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.” — Krist Novoselic

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“With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.” — John Moody

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“World history is tragic.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.” — Kim Novak

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“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.” — Jackson Browne

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