Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

Marco Rubio

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Mike White

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Noam Chomsky

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Pierre de Coubertin

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Paul Ricoeur

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Pete Sessions

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Rita Dove

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Renee Fleming

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Robert Johnson

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake.

Roger Mahony

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

Rick Santorum

There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

Rip Torn

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

Robert Taylor

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Rick Warren

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

Rick Yune

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Stephen Ambrose

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

Steve Aoki

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Soulja Boy