Quotes of: World-history Keyword

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Warren Buffett

Murray: Derek, what are you trying to prove?

American History X

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Anthony Liccione

Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that ...

The Map of the Sky

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there—that is, proceeded to propel that true...

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

It’s Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It’s Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history—and then seven days later clinching the World Serie...

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

Every past is worth condemning.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.

Tears of Heaven

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

History repeats itself but without a parity bit

Nauman Khan

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Debi Mazar

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Caitlin Moran

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

David Miliband

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Herbert Croly

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Michael Shermer

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

Michael Specter