It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. Terry Eagleton on history
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. Jared Diamond on history
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. Terry Eagleton on history
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. Ron Wyden on history
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. Renata Adler on history
I'll watch any show on the History Channel. Rick Springfield on history
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. Liev Schreiber on history
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. Conrad Hall on history
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. Conrad Hall on history
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. Novak Djokovic on history
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. Novak Djokovic on history
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. Novak Djokovic on history
But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted. Novak Djokovic on history
In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke. Ville Valo on history
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships. Michelle Bachelet on history
I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history. Seann William Scott on history
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. Kathryn Bigelow on history
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. Rahm Emanuel on history
I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. Rahm Emanuel on history
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. Jean Anouilh on history