If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. – Ron Fournier
I normally ignore the History Channel. – Diablo Cody
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. – Eddie Vedder
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. – Horatio Alger
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. – Joe Biden
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. – James Buchan
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. – David Attenborough
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough
Natural history is not about producing fables. – David Attenborough
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. – Martin Heidegger
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. – Robert Anton Wilson
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. – William Hague
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. – Arthur Erickson
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. – Arthur Erickson
