Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Daphne Guinness

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Donald Kagan

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

David Lynch

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Doug Liman

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

Dominic Monaghan

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

David Novak

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Dinah Sheridan

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Ezra Taft Benson

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ehud Olmert

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

Eddie Vedder

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Felicia Day

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Frank B. Kellogg

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Ferdinand Mount

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

Fatos Nano

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Frank Rich

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Fred Saberhagen