Top 1200 Studying History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

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

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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

[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

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 won F4, and I won F3 - F3 by, I believe, the biggest margin in history and as one of the youngest drivers in history. I'm just pointing out facts. I'm not bragging or anything.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

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

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

Black history is American history.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

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

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

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

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

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

History has been the history of warfare.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

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

History is not history unless it is the truth.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history. I think it’s important to not eradicate it. I look at someone’s face and I see the work before I see the person... You’re certainly not staving off the inevitable. And if you’re doing it out of fear, that fear’s still going to be seen through your eyes. The windows to your soul, they say.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

I thought that studying the performing arts and becoming an actress would give me a reason to leave home at a younger age.

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

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

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

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 art is the history of revivals.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

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

The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time

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

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

All history is the history of unintended consequences.

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.