Quotes of: World-history Keyword

The Bible is a history book.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Pearl introduces an original story, in a form which was to become one of the most frequent in mediaeval literature, the dream-vision. Authors like Chaucer and Langland use this form, in which the narrator describes another world - usually a heavenly ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transfo...

Religion and World History: A Selection from the Works of Christopher Dawson

If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that...

Les Diaboliques

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a t...

A People's History of the United States

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another" - Rudge

The History Boys

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

The History Boys

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

The History of History

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

Little Miss History Travel Series

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Newt Gingrich

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

Chad Harbach

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

James Ellroy

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Marty Meehan

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Paul Begala

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Pearl Cleage

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Simon Wiesenthal

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

Alison Weir

Maj. Cotton: That must be the first 50 in the history of village cricket.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India