Quotes of: World-history Keyword

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

Natasha Trethewey

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

Paul Reiser

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Philip Roth

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

Peter Zumthor

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Richard M. Daley

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

Richard Flanagan

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Roland Joffe

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Ric Keller

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

Richard Leakey

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Ross Levinsohn

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

Rita Ora

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Raymond Queneau

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Richard Rorty

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

Robert Baldwin Ross

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Sacha Baron Cohen

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Stephen Elop

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

Susan Eisenhower