Famous Quotes & Sayings

The typical pattern in American history is that when things are going well, we welcome immigrants. When they're going badly, we tell them to stay away.

Marie Brennan

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

Tim Russert

It's an affirmation of the history of Meet the Press.

It's a momentous day for the sport and Winnipeg as well. It's history in the making and to have it come from a homegrown talent is just amazing." ()

Michael Tanner

This is the first time in the country's history where simply by virtue of living somewhere you are mandated to purchase a product.

John Crowley

This is the first time in history that we've evacuated a whole city,

This is revolutionary in the history of skiing and it's very exciting.

This is probably one of the largest pay-outs of its kind in UK history.

Jarkko Nieminen

This is tennis history for Finland. Winning my first title is also very nice for my country.

This is something we wanted to do. We want them to take the time to see the history and tradition of the franchise.

Jonathan Harris

This is something like we have never seen before in the history of the industry,

Thomas Jefferson

We might have been a free and great people together.

Thomas Jefferson

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Tacitus

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stefan Zweig

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

William James

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

Will Durant

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Will Durant

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

Robin G. Collingwood

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Robin G. Collingwood

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Robert Walpole

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Rebecca West

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

Rebecca West

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

Russell Hoban

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Russell Baker

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.