951 private quotes tagged history

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.” — Norman Cousins

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“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.” — Erica Jong

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“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“History develops, art stands still.” — E. M. Forster

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana

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“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.” — George W. Bush

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“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver

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“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” — Grover Cleveland

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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.” — Gertrude Stein

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“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong

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“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.” — Ilka Chase

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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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