History Quotes - Page 61

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.