Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.
Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.
In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.
It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.
History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.
<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.
We kept gazing into each other’s eyes, rest was history, we kept talking in body language.
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill
War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days.
All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.
All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.
