I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
I don’t think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.
I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Ronnie O’Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
