#history

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#beginning #being #centuries #century #comes

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i #i love #i see #itself #like

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. ↗

— Sun Ra

#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#central #chapter #close #communist #dark

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle. ↗

— Dan Rather

#history #i #least #seat

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#his #history #job #time #witness

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. ↗

— Paul Valery

#finds #great #history #may #seeks

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom. ↗

— Sumner Redstone

#bottom #clear #history #looking #market

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic