There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. Michelle Obama
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. Newt Gingrich
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. Sidney Poitier
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. Norman Borlaug
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Joseph Conrad
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. Newt Gingrich
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. Paul Ryan
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. Jerry Saltz
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language. Jerry Saltz
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. Jerry Saltz
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.' Jerry Saltz
Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. Joan Rivers
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Salman Rushdie
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. Demetri Martin
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Alfred North Whitehead
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. V. S. Naipaul
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. Paul Ryan