Historical Quotes · Page 19

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

— Stephen Moore

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

— Lionel Barber

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

— Thomas Paine

“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.”

— Steven Magee

“Sneezeweed, Drew?" He grinned. "Jealous?" "Surprised." "Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips." "Promise?" "Absolutely.”

— Deeanne Gist

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

— Josh McDowell

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

— Natasha Trethewey

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during…

— Barney Frank

Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have…

— Karen Armstrong

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about…

— Steven Pinker

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is…

— William Gibson

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages…

— Philibert Joseph Roux

An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the…

— Daniel Dennett

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty…

— Hugo Chavez

My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who…

— Linus Torvalds

The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think creating the clothes is about creating historical images - and that's about more than fashion. It is about the fashion,…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its…

— Mikhail Bakunin

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…

— C. Wright Mills

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…

— C. Wright Mills

Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read…

— Joss Whedon

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not…

— Franz Halder

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

— Gertrude Stein

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

— Tony Kushner

“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.”

— M.C. Halliday

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

— Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,

— Rick Santorum

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had…

— Scott Westerfeld

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

— Barack Obama

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or…

— Thomas Jefferson

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears…

— John Milton

“The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem”

— J.A. Belfield

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and…

— Anna Sui

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

— Antony Beevor