Quotes of: World-history Keyword

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

Eric Ries

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Edwin Starr

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Ferdinand Marcos

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Gerald Edelman

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

George Wald

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

Herbert Croly

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Hillary Clinton

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

Harriet Van Horne

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Harri Holkeri

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Henry Hampton

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

Henry James Sumner Maine

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

Henry Rollins

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

Ira Sachs

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

John Acton

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

James Mark Baldwin

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Javier Bardem

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

Julian Fellowes

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.

John Gokongwei

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey