All Quotes

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
‐‐ Rand Paul

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
‐‐ Michael Specter

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
‐‐ Norman Granz

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
‐‐ Richard Cecil

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.
‐‐ James McGreevey

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
‐‐ Taylor Branch

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
‐‐ Gail Collins

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
‐‐ Gail Collins

The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The history of art is the history of revivals.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
‐‐ Edwin Powell Hubble

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
‐‐ Bruce Chatwin

The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
‐‐ Maelle Gavet

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
‐‐ Kenneth Scott Latourette

The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
‐‐ Claire Denis

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
‐‐ Bernhard von Bulow

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
‐‐ Iqbal Quadir

The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
‐‐ Sherwood Smith

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.
‐‐ Josh Fox

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
‐‐ Dan Rosensweig

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.
‐‐ Susanna Moore

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.
‐‐ John Spencer

The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
‐‐ Josh Hamilton

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
‐‐ Giles Foden

The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
‐‐ Nayef Al-Rodhan

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
‐‐ Simon Wiesenthal

The history of mankind is a history of war.
‐‐ Mike Love

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
‐‐ Adam Ferguson

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
‐‐ Luigi Pirandello

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
‐‐ Franz Kafka