Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Cass Sunstein

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Carl Jung

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Karen Smith

We're the largest historical society in the south suburbs, and we're very proud of that.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,

I'm not in a position to make a historical comparison,

Julia Quinn

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

Jay Bilas

I have to keep reminding myself there are a lot of teams out there that might not feel like NCAA Tournament teams because you're taking a historical perspective. When you sit down and do the math and start to look at the remaining teams, there really aren't that many teams vying for spots.

John Deane

But he said now seemed to be the time -- that he wanted to get it on the historical record,

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Colm Feore

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

Julian Barnes

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

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.

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

Jeremy Siegel

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids.

It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.

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

Hal Borland

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Glen Cook

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Jeremy Bentham

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Frederic Morton

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...