Top 1200 Natural History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

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

All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

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.

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

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

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

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

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.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

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

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.

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.

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

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as a martial artist, and as a martial artist, it's what I always wanted to do - test myself and always fighting. It's what I'm meant to do.

All history is the history of unintended consequences.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

History has been the history of warfare.

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

I'm not part of the history, I am the 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.

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

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

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.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

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

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

It's a great honor to make history but to make more history, I need to be healthy and injury-free.