I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. Nikki Giovanni on history
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person. Ang Lee on history
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. Marco Rubio on history
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. Marco Rubio on history
And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time. Marco Rubio on history
Our history is not our destiny. Alan Cohen on history
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now. Michael Phelps on history
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. John Baldacci on history
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring on history
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on history
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on history
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. George McGovern on history
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. Katy Perry on history
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. David Hume on history
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. David Hume on history
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. Peter Abrahams on history
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. George Lucas on history
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. Jawaharlal Nehru on history
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Dean Acheson on history
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. Will Durant on history