Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Noah Feldman

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

Olivia d'Abo

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Pierre Bayle

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Park Geun-hye

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

Phoebe Philo

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Russell Baker

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.

Robert Dallek

My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.

Robert Dallek

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Robert Darnton

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

Ron Fournier

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Robert Harris

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Ricky Jay

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Robert Mugabe

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Rick Perlstein