Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that’s true in my life. – Mitt Romney
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. – Jean Charest
It took the first 204 years of our Nation’s history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. – Jim Cooper
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. – Krist Novoselic
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. – James Mark Baldwin
In the history of physics, every time we’ve looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we’ve found things that we wouldn’t have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? – Lisa Randall
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. – Katharine Lee Bates
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights – if need be – with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable. – Lee Myung-bak
I believe in monogamy if that’s what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. – K. D. Lang
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. – Margaret Thatcher
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. – Jim Cooper
Television is better than it’s ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed – because of how complicated they are to make – toward Netflix and other channels on cable. – Leonardo DiCaprio
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly. – Malcolm Gladwell
I joined the board of Chipotle because no company has ever been able to scale fresh, properly sourced food in the history of America. – Kimbal Musk
On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up. – Kelly Price
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. – Kofi Annan
The Russian revolution is one of history’s car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable. – Kathryn Harrison
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don’t feel have been given a fair shake in history. – Kathryn Lasky
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality. – John Edgar Wideman
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I’d have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. – Jane Haddam
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. – M. Scott Peck
My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I’ve never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand. – Lawrence Kudlow
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. – LeRoy Neiman
I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage – there’s a powerful Christian thread through all of American history. – John Edwards
Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare. – John Sulston