In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility! — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans,… — Barbara J. Fields Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
When Barack Obama tries to continually weasel his ever-expanding government into the private sector or does something like try to sneak the… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
“History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats… — Valerio Massimo Manfredi Copy Share Image
It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!" - Dr. Christine Putnam” — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“You will leave your foot print in the sand of history if you understand and apply the power of time conversion.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
If you look at our history, this is a club that has always represented the values of citizenship, sport and democracy in… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch Copy Share Image
When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game. — Tony Parker Copy Share Image
