Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.
Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.
Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.