Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. – George Lucas
Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church. – C. J. Mahaney
Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum’s collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer. – Neil MacGregor
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. – George Crumb
So often, we don’t realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story. – Deborah Wiles
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. – Moshe Katsav
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. – Daisaku Ikeda
People didn’t vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. – Fatos Nano
Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city’s edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900. – David Roberts
I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don’t really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it’s a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being. – Mackenzie Davis
In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It’s so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you’re going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you’re born working class, you’re going to stay there, although that is changing. – Nigel Cole
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say ‘right people,’ I’m not talking about their college degree or work history; I’m talking about things like bearing – How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off? – Edward Whitacre, Jr.
We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have been coming to the United States as students for decades. American businessmen were in Iran developing the oil fields. …There was an American financial advisor to the Iranian government in the early part of the century. – Elaine Sciolino
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments – from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet. – Felix Rohatyn
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. – Michael Johns
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. – Daniel H. Wilson
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but – bearing in mind my age and medical history – I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward. – Martin Fleischmann
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? – Philip Zimbardo
I’m not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it’s quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It’s just full of all these open wounds we don’t really know what to do with. – Nick Cave
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated. – Gloria Estefan
China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they’re not given any credit for anything. – Dambisa Moyo
There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. – Norman Davies
I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods. – Deb Caletti
There are these moments in the military where you’re present at these enormous intersections of history and humanity. I came out of the end of that, and I just wanted to write. If you do it well, you know it will last. It can’t get blown away like everything else. – Elliot Ackerman
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. – Eckhart Tolle
For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. – Dennis Prager
Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks. – Maury Yeston