Quotes of: Long-history Keyword

The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways th...

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us ...

Francois Hollande

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Al Yankovic

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Robert D. Kaplan

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

Yukiya Amano

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If yo...

Winona LaDuke

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

Anne Tyler

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went ...

Deborah Harkness

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that th...

Daniel Dennett

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and ti...

The Phoenix Endangered

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication.

Thomas R. Insel

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.

Psychology; An Elementary Text-Book

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Andrew Weil

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

Bethany McLean

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Christopher Bond

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

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Elizabeth Warren

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Marc Jacobs