Top 1200 Repeating History Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.

My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

There's not much to tell about me, and in five minutes I'll probably be repeating myself.

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story? So that, in the end, the history of the world would be a history of every single one of its members, but of course, you could never get to grips with that.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Death is the return to the beginning of the same life with the possibility of repeating it again.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.

The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.

There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.

I don't like repeating things and look out for work that could challenge me.

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.

The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Philosophically, I think riffs that start with E repeating itself are almost guaranteed to be great.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

I made a few mistakes in the earlier phase of my career and I know that I won't be repeating them again.

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

When you are repeating your co-star, it's good to bring something new to the equation on screen.

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.