History is a race between education and catastrophe.
I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event – the facts about a person, the facts of history – which is not why I turned to this genre.
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
What’s most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it’s a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.
The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
I’m a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best managers in football history.
So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Sen. Sessions’ commitment to public service is nearly unparalleled in Alabama history, and his departure from the Senate leaves tremendous shoes to fill.
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that’s the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community’s best guarantee of stability in Asia.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
