Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Sugar Ray Leonard

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique.

Aristotle

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Elizabeth Bowen

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

Barbara Boxer

Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon for that,

Nadia Boulanger

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Delphine Arnault

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

Pankaj Mishra

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Many thanks for your part in our history.

Frank Hadden

Scotland's history has been one or two occasions of tremendous over-achievement, and I am hoping this is the start of one for us.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Johan Santana

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

David Weinberger

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

Simon Wiesenthal

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Artie Lange

Unlike a lot of comics, I didn't care about getting on 'Saturday Night Live.' That show had such history and was so established that I didn't see the point.

bell hooks

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

Beeban Kidron

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.