Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Sarah Churchwell

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Shereen El Feki

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Steve Lacy

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Todd Gitlin

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Hooper

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Thomas R. Insel

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

Thomas Schlamme

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Thomas Steinbeck

I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

Vijender Singh

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Vivienne Westwood

When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

Most of us get our history through story.

Yann Martel

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Mike Trout

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Ian Harding

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Eugene V. Debs

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

Lee Konitz

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Mike Gordon

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

Persis Khambatta