Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? Pat Robertson on history
I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. Pat Robertson on history
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. Hermann Hesse on history
But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? Jim Wallis on history
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. Camille Paglia on history
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! Camille Paglia on history
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. Camille Paglia on history
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. Camille Paglia on history
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. Camille Paglia on history
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on history
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on history
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather. Ilka Chase on history
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz on history
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy on history
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. Ben Stein on history
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. Daniel Libeskind on history
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. Josh McDowell on history
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. Julie Andrews on history
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. Sarah Bernhardt on history
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine on history