Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Jodie Foster

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

James J. Hill

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Julio Iglesias

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

John D. Long

It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

Jenna Morasca

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

John Malkovich

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

John Moody

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Jeremy Rifkin

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Jerry Saltz

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

John Strachan

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

Jesse Ventura

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Jim Walsh

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Ken Ham

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Kim Il-sung

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Kevin McCloud