Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hoshyar Zebari

It will really be the trial of the history of his regime over 35 years,

Fabio Capello

It won't really be a friendly, considering the history and the rivalry. I hope my players return healthy.

They could have taken the 'history' slant of it. They could have taken a 'homemade' slant of it. They just went for 'strong,' ... You know, the mint's so strong it has to be in a metal box.

Danny Kass

It was huge for the mainstream part of our sport, getting a following. We didn't even know what we'd done. We all just thought, 'Wow, we did so good.' So it was, like, people telling us we had made history and us being pretty clueless.

It was history 30 years ago, and it may be history again. We won't know until we taste the wine.

Isaac Hayes

It was just one of those things in history that you did the right thing at the right time.

John Gibbons

It's an important part of history and everyone should be able to see it that way.

It's an important new contribution to (understanding) a very, very important transition in the history of life.

It's history in the making, but we still have one more game.

Scott Rolen

For an organization and a stadium with the richness and history that it has, to be traded over in '02 and selected to this, it's surprising, shocking and much appreciated,

It's obviously a big challenge. Nobody's ever done it (as a sixth-seeded team). We're going to try to make history and be the first ones.

It's not the record we wanted. It's not the way we wanted to write history. We wanted to be the first (Union) team to win a playoff series.

Brad Davis

It's the first time in the history of the league,

It's a long and proud history, the history of the Corps, and I've tried to do my part to preserve it.

It looks nothing like the old building, but you can't save some of the buildings. ...You can't preserve history entirely. It's impossible.

Mao Zedong

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

John F. Kennedy

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

Joyce Carol Oates

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.

Paul Valery

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

John Burns

The Thames is liquid history.

Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

Karl Popper

There is no history, only histories.

Han Suyin

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

John Maynard Keynes

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Lukacs

But then history does not only consist of documents.

John Lewis Gaddis

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

John Barth

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

John Barth

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Joseph Conrad

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

Karl Kraus

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

June Jordan

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.