There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. – Georgios A. Papandreou
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. – Roh Moo-hyun
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson
I do consider myself part of black history. – Mary J. Blige
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. – Elizabeth Edwards
World history is a court of judgment. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. – David Rockefeller
History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
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
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. – Thurgood Marshall
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. – Robert Menzies
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. – Vivienne Westwood
In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with. – Jeanne Moreau
