#history

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#faith #history #meaning #means #nevertheless

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. ↗

— Fritz Hollings

#categorically #country #direction #got #governor

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#direction #favour #follow #history #noticing

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#am #among #children #future #help

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#been #cast #first #first time #history

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#first #history #i #mexico #president

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#constantly #evil #history #our #our time

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it ↗

— George Santayana

#lesson #life #past #repeat #life

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#mystery #life