At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university. – Hartmut Michel
My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do. – Hugh Grant
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. – Helena Blavatsky
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading – English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. – Henry Petroski
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. – Henry Kissinger
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him. – Hilary Mantel
We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and – to our benefit! – has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, ‘Now we finally know ourselves.’ – Gunter Grass
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. – Haniel Long
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby’s or something. – Hugh Grant
Here’s the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well. – Grant Achatz
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come. – Gustav Krupp
Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why. – Heather Wilson
From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America’s unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. – George Nethercutt
It’s our culture, Christian history, that’s what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We’re just built that way. – Gerhard Richter
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. – George Saintsbury
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies. – Ha-Joon Chang
Throughout America’s young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. – Harold Evans
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. – Harold Washington
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. – Henry Louis Gates
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory. – Haruki Murakami
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – Honore de Balzac
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. – Herb Ritts
Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. – Haruki Murakami
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He’s very original, very accurate and acute. – Helen Vendler
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. – Harry S Truman
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. – Haile Selassie
