I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. . . . If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.
History. . . shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
If you look throughout human history. . . the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
Now is history as fast as the mind remembers.
[Sundance] still feels significant. I don't think you can help but come here and not feel that sense of history and its significance in influencing film. And I think it still does. Some of that is based on history, but it's also based on really incredible programmers who are showcasing such an incredible variety of cinema.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
It was my dream as a kid was to make history.
If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.
Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
