I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. Annie Lennox
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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
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
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. John Maynard Keynes
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. John Podhoretz
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
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
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. Dee Dee Myers
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. Georgios A. Papandreou
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
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. Lech Walesa
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Susan Sontag
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. Doris Lessing
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. Robert Anton Wilson
I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? Denis Leary