History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. Rick Warren on history
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. Coretta Scott King on history
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. Ron Fournier on history
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? Charles de Gaulle on history
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. Ray Manzarek on history
I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. Annie Lennox on history
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Nicolas Chamfort on history
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. Elton John on history
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. David Cameron on history
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours. David Cameron on history
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point. David Cameron on history
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes on history
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon on history
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. John Podhoretz on history
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. John Podhoretz on history
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. John Podhoretz on history
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. Dee Dee Myers on history
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. Georgios A. Papandreou on history
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. Roh Moo-hyun on history
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. Lech Walesa on history