#history

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. ↗

— Boris Becker

#future #history #i #i can #only

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. ↗

— Paul Begala

#american history #bill #clinton #couple #hillary

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#almost #always #back #behavior #characteristic

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history. ↗

— Retief Goosen

#card #european #get #history #i

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#bad #beautiful #because #both #cliche

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#cruelly #ever #history #maligned #misunderstood

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist