If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.
Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
