#history

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #country #cruel #direction #face

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get behind the coalition effort to help them create a democratic government and rebuild their country. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#better #coalition #country #create #democratic

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#history #network #president #shaving #situation

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#caught #forces #get #history #small

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#history #our #revolt #right #sources

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#approach #characters #endow #female #female characters

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#been #chiefly #closet #displayed #heart

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#concealed #everything #greatest #history #knew