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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“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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“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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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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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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