Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. Richard M. Nixon
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. James A. Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James A. Baldwin
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. Temple Grandin
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. Benito Mussolini
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. Rush Limbaugh
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. Haile Selassie
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. Harry S. Truman
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Malcolm Forbes
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. R. D. Laing
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Jefferson Davis