All Quotes

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
‐‐ Paul Gauguin

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.
‐‐ Mary Fallin

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
‐‐ John Boyd Orr

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

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
‐‐ Benito Mussolini

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
‐‐ John Logan

The history of skiing is important to me.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
‐‐ John Moody

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
‐‐ Carroll Quigley

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
‐‐ Ernest Dimnet

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.
‐‐ Susan Cameron

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
‐‐ Paul Valery

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
‐‐ John Morton

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
‐‐ Dan Hill

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
‐‐ James Fallows

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
‐‐ Nigel Lythgoe