Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Agnes Repplier

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Agnes Repplier

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Therese Fowler

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Lord Shaftesbury

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

George Will

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Khaled Hosseini

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

David Lange

Death is very, very terminal.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Billy Bob Thornton

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.