The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.