3 December 2020 Franz Kafka The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
3 December 2020 Mike Tyson I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
3 December 2020 C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
3 December 2020 William F. Buckley, Jr. A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
3 December 2020 Rahm Emanuel Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
3 December 2020 Joan Rivers Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
3 December 2020 Bernie Sanders Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
3 December 2020 Hugh Laurie I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto I don’t really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
3 December 2020 Grandma Moses A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
3 December 2020 Robert Hall Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
3 December 2020 David Brinkley Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
3 December 2020 Roh Moo-hyun At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
