Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it present
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
