Top 1200 Events In History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind back in politics, in economics, in industry, in science, in philosophy, in culture.

If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

We all know that history cannot be undone. But let me assure you that we Austrians know that, because of our history, we have a great responsibility.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.