true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and ...
Uncle Les: She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!
Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( , New York Times, February 22, 1987)
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.
History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.
