Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
