3 December 2020 Irving R. Kaufman The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
3 December 2020 Conrad Black Nixon’s full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country’s history.
3 December 2020 William Morris History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
3 December 2020 Sprague Grayden Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
3 December 2020 Usain Bolt I don’t know the history of my sport. I’m not like those people who know everything.
3 December 2020 George Michael Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
3 December 2020 Sally Field Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
3 December 2020 Juan Antonio Samaranch We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
3 December 2020 Jawaharlal Nehru You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
3 December 2020 Auguste Rodin Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
3 December 2020 Demetri Martin I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn’t there. It has to do with history.
3 December 2020 Ray Manzarek Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
3 December 2020 William Hague Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
3 December 2020 Temple Grandin If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
3 December 2020 Eugene V. Debs When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
