Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars

Conrad Black

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Monica Crowley

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

Jeff Zucker

Neal has presided over one of the most challenging and successful times in this news division's history,

Octavio Paz

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

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.

Ridley Scott

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

We don't have much of a history that would tell us what the ECB is going to do. All sorts of scenarios are possible.

We don't have much of a history that would tell us what the ECB is going to do, ... All sorts of scenarios are possible.

Jesse Jackson

We are saddened by the passing of Rosa Parks. We rejoice in her legacy, which will never die. In many ways, history is marked as before, and after, Rosa Parks.

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.

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.

Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Clifton Fadiman

We are all citizens of history.

E. M. Forster

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Donald Knuth

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Cotton Mather

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

David Frum

One can shape history as much through the facts one omits as through the facts one includes.

Dolores Huerta

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Anthony Anderson

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Andrew Roberts

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.

Anais Nin

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

Chuck Palahniuk

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.