Quotes of: World-history Keyword

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

Steve Zahn

If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of "most successful organization in modern history," you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States. In its earliest stirrings, it established a ...

David Leonhardt

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

Cold Steel

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?” “If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

A Dance with Dragons

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Ai Weiwei

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel

Sex drives the world and sex in on every human mind, be it a prophet or be it a saint, history has full of evidences.

25 Sexy Poems

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

The Alchemist

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Last Days

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

Sophie's World

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Nothing in this world, is completely new. That's why we study history and compare today, with the past. In the end, every human being, has the same way of thinking.

Unknown

Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come.

Miya Yamanouchi

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

Jamais Cascio

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

Rick Santorum