Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Kris's retirement probably marks the end of a remarkable phase in the club's history.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

I was pretty impressed by the movie, especially as Hollywood history goes, but the story is kind of claustrophobic and isolated. You get no sense of what was going on in the wider culture,

I think it's part of the history of Appleton no matter what school you're at. For those people that get into history, I think it's a nice thing to look at. Historically, it's important to keep track of records.

It got water in it for the first time in history.

E. O. Wilson

I think that we made history obviously for this program, for our first year in the NCAA tournament, and I think that people are starting to realize that we can play basketball.

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first.

I was the most perfect scapegoat in history. Nobody was better than I was.

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.

Kit Harington

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

It allows access, ... It allows people to see the history of the city.

I did not record them, because with his history and physical they did not seem consequential,

Dennis Stock

I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He was very low-key.

I don't know what kind of history they had there, but obviously we had some history tonight and last night. And it makes for some entertaining hockey.

Paul Azinger

Greensboro's got too much history for the Tour to pull out, ... You're telling me you're going to pull the plug on a tournament that's been around for as long as this one has? That Sam Snead won (eight) times? I'd like to think the PGA has some loyalty and better sense than that.

Phil Angelides

has come down on the wrong side of history.

Thomas R. Insel

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Marco Tempest

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Ross Levinsohn

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Simon Schama

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

Santonio Holmes

Knowing the history of all the receivers that have made a legacy here and in the NFL, I wanted to be a part of that trend.