Quotes of: Ford Keyword

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

Douglas Coupland

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Dinesh D'Souza

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

Erich Auerbach

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Friedrich Engels

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Henry Rollins

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

Julian Cope

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

James Dyson

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Kathryn Bigelow

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Livy

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Mary Douglas

In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

Michael Dell

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

M. Night Shyamalan

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Penelope Lively

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

Reza Aslan

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Rahm Emanuel

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Russell Hoban

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Steve Jobs

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.

Tim LaHaye