Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.