History Quotes · Page 100

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

— Desmond Tutu

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that

— Rick Yune

Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.

— Bill Foster

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

— Johan Santana

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

— Maya Angelou

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

— Malcolm X

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

— Ludwig Borne

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's…

— Tony Randall

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that…

— Seann William Scott

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his…

— Adolf Hitler

“I believe the lion’s share of the history of the 21st century is going to play out in the Asian Pacific region…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

“Throughout history people blamed their sufferings on everyone and anyone except God.You don't criticize God,you thank Him.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it…

— J.D. Salinger

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most…

— Robert A. Caro

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts…

— Serge Schmemann

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet…

— Anonymous

I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the…

— Michael Bennet

“Our early history is lost in mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.…

— Eduardo Galeano

At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid.…

— Per Petterson

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look…

— Edward Norton

“Of the four worst K-12 school shootings in history, three have occurred in Europe. Germany was host to two of these—one in…

— John R. Lott Jr

Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

— Mikko Hypponen

“History is not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.”

— Phil MItchell

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

— Julie Burchill

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

— Noam Chomsky

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

— Al Michaels

“history proves that the winning forces are those who put survival first and killing second”

— Paul Tobin

It's just a good thing to be a part of history and a lot of people will not be able to say…

— Ginuwine

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

— Anonymous

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

— James Joyce

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

— Mike Rounds

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history

— Michelle Obama

I'm one of those people who really likes to do my research.

— Ashley Johnson

“Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

— Julius Caesar