#history

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#countries #first #first time #goal #history

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#believes #change #his #history #memoirs

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. ↗

— David Guterson

#fictional #finally #find #fits #history

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#different #fear #history #ignorance #immigrants

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#division #end #fairness #history #i

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#attack #comparison #constitute #events #historical

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. ↗

— William Hague

#because #been #concluded #conflicts #dealing

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#certainly #heard #history #invoke #those

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#been #done #food #get #history