History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.
When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.
