The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? – George Stephanopoulos
There’s a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that’s being done. – Hal Price
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. – Goldwin Smith
When you start out, you’re not really aware. I didn’t have a sense of photographic history. – Herb Ritts
I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark. – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
I haven’t even graduated from high school yet – and I’ve realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I’ve done and all of the movies I’ve made, that the world is my classroom. I’ve experienced things I don’t know you can necessarily get from reading a history book. – Hailee Steinfeld
What is overlooked is the astonishing amount of history Hollywood has got right… For better or worse, nothing has been more influential in shaping our visions of the past than the commercial cinema. – George MacDonald Fraser
My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history. – Harry Reid
We’ve gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history. – Harvey V. Fineberg
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. – Gregg Easterbrook
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose. – Hampton Sides
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. – Hans Kung
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times. – George Saintsbury
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. – Harriet Van Horne
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. – Harold Rosenberg
We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing. – Helmut Sohmen
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper. – Hans Jonas
Whether a woman’s running for office or she’s supporting her husband who’s running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there’s just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. – Hillary Clinton
I really get up every day and try to deal with the problems that are in front of me, and I don’t really worry about history. That will work itself out over time. – Hillary Clinton
I’m very interested in heritage restoration, and I’m working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history. – Hugh Masekela
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. – Gerald Vann
I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. – Helen Dunmore
I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God – her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands. – Gretchen Mol
