Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. W. Howe

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

David Hawkins

The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.

The shoreline is a tribal resource, a historic resource and an important part of tribal identity.

Julian Barnes

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

Orlando is a popular destination from Charleston, West Virginia, like a lot of other places, It has a need, already historical trips and they're interested in looking at pieces like Charleston.

After reviewing the information provided, we find the report to be adequate. Therefore there will be no historic properties affected.

Kofi Annan

seize the opportunity ... and make it truly the historic occasion it should be.

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

It's kind of an historic day. There's no going back now, it appears.

They've been rewriting the show and revamping it, but I would think it would need a massive overhaul of historic and miraculous proportions to be saved at this time.

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

Kwame Brown

This is historic that we're talking about this at all. We should all be proud.

Les Moonves

This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media.

This is really a historic and important occasion for us.

The Web throws all the historical ways of thinking about this stuff out the window. If I were going to start something today, that's what I'd do.

Newt Gingrich

This could end up being a very historic summer,

It's a disappointment, we lost our historic structure, but in life we've overcome more than this.

It's a historic rivalry. When you look at the history of the league, Willard has 24 (boys basketball) championships and Bellevue has 17 and everyone else is in single-digits.

Adam Cohen

Everything we were doing back then was utilizing historic tax credits, but this did not qualify because it wasn't 50 years old,

Ben Shapiro

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

We were obligated to preserve our historic landmark. Not just for this generation, but for the generations to come.

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Karl Marx

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The new European Soviet.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

George Henry Lewes

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

George H. W. Bush

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.