Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.

Noam Chomsky

The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

Nick Denton

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Novak Djokovic

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

Norman Granz

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

Niger Innis

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

Naoto Kan

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

Nikki Sixx

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

Natasha Trethewey

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

Nathan Wolfe

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

Oscar de la Renta

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

Paul Reiser

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Philip Roth

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

Peter Zumthor

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Richard M. Daley

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

Richard Flanagan

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Roland Joffe

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

Richard Leakey