Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eskinder Nega

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

Our history is written at the submicron level, in these interstellar grains.

Robert Gottlieb

'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.

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 Berenson

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

Antoine Rivarol

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

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.

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.

Nick Harkaway

My reading of history is that we continually inherit trouble.

Look at the board. There's a lot of history for these programs and the kids see it every time they come out here.

Look at our history and what we've done,

Jose Maria Aznar

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

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.

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

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.

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.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

We can be very proud. There aren't many times you can set history like that.

Philip Roth

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Rory Stewart

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Paul Bettany

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.

Sergei Ivanov

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.

We have a history of accretive transactions that have significantly benefited shareholders.