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.

Alberto Martinez

Needless to say we had nothing to do with that. We are wondering who did it.

Cindy Osbrink

Needless to say, we are devastated. She had everything going for her.

Fong Piau

Needless to say, the potential in Jakarta is immense.

Dick Vermeil

Needless to say, I'm very, very proud of how well they played.

Steve Stirling

The turning point was the second period with all the penalties. We took some silly, needless penalties there.

Mark Howard

It was entertaining to some people, it's just not who we are. Needless to say, there will not be an encore performance for Lisa.

Gregory Estes

The detailer was the one to offer putting him on the ship with me. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

Carol Roth

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Carlos Fuentes

[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Carl Crawford

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

C. S. Lewis

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Agnes Repplier

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Agnes Repplier

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Aasif Mandvi

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Aaron Swartz

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Charles Dickens

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Darren Shan

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Carolina Herrera

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Irish Sayings

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Elie Wiesel

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.