3 December 2020 Howard Nemerov History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
3 December 2020 Harold Wilson The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
3 December 2020 Conrad Hall It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
3 December 2020 James Buchan Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
3 December 2020 Malcom X History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Muggeridge History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
3 December 2020 Pablo Picasso I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
3 December 2020 Dean Acheson No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
3 December 2020 Twyla Tharp I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
3 December 2020 Molly Ivins It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
3 December 2020 Conrad Black For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history.
3 December 2020 Rashida Jones I don’t think that there’s been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it’s done them any good.
3 December 2020 Christina Aguilera I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
3 December 2020 Tony Blair In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
3 December 2020 Jim Wallis But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
3 December 2020 Fred Allen We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
3 December 2020 John Baldacci All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
