Quote: It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Author: Jim Bishop
Quote: The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom Author: Jean Bodin
Quote: The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Author: Thomas Carlyle
Quote: For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years - Jimmy Carter 39th President Author: Jimmy Carter
Quote: The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman Author: Willa Sibert Cather
Quote: People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Quote: We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past. Author: Madame Chiang
Quote: The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. Author: Frederick Chiluba
Quote: One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Author: Michael Cibenko
Quote: Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. - (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher Author: Marcus Cicero
Quote: America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization Author: Georges Clemenceau
Quote: Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that are past it is needless to blame. Author: Confucius
Quote: Live out of your imagination, not your history Author: Stephen R. Covey
Quote: It is not observed in history that families improve with time Author: George William Curtis
Quote: The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women Author: Elizabeth II
Quote: The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave Author: Edward Morgan Forster
Quote: The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge Author: Erich Fromm
Quote: I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. Author: Robert Lee Frost
Quote: Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest Author: Mahatma Ghandi
Quote: History never looks like History when you are living through it. Author: John William Gardner
Quote: The future is the past returning through another gate. Author: Arnold Glasgow
Quote: You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present Author: Jan Glidewell
Quote: History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. Author: Philip Guedalla
Quote: More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Author: Woody Allen
Quote: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Author: Maya Angelou
Quote: For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Author: Maya Angelou
Quote: Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. Author: Jean Anouilh
Quote: Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Quote: It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. Author: Corazón Cojuangco Aquino
Quote: Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. Author: Oren Arnold
Quote: May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Quote: The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Author: Walter Bagehot
Quote: The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Quote: Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. Author: Dave Barry
Quote: All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. Author: Carl Lotus Becker
Quote: As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in. Author: Edward Bedore
Quote: If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Author: Hans Albrecht Bethe
Quote: This ONLY is denied God: The power to undo the past. Author: Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Quote: The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service. Author: Lord Billingsley
Quote: When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. Author: Barbara Bloom,
Quote: Forget the past and live the present hour. Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
Quote: What is history but a fable agreed upon. Author: Napolean Bonaparte
Quote: Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning. Author: Daniel JosephBoorstin
Quote: The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. Author: William Edgar Borah
Quote: Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Author: Nadia Boulanger
Quote: I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. Author: Garth Brooks
Quote: Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Author: H. Jackson Brown
Quote: Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. Author: Jean de La Bruyère
Quote: God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. Author: Samuel Butler
Quote: Study the past, if you would divine the future. Author: Confucius
Quote: A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: silling to give up freedom for security deserve neither Author: franklin
Quote: I WOULD RATHER HAVE LUCKY GENERALS Author: NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE