Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

William Ernest Hocking

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

William Irwin Thompson

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

William Least Heat-Moon

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Isaacson

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

William Kidd

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

Willie Mays

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William Manchester

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

William Maxwell

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

Woody Guthrie

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Woody Allen

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William Saroyan

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

William James

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Will Durant

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Will Durant

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Sarah Palin

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William F. Buckley, Jr.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

William Faulkner

Civilization begins with distillation

Willard Scott

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.