Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler
Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. – Liev Schreiber
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. – Conrad Hall
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. – Conrad Hall
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. – Novak Djokovic
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
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. – Novak Djokovic
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships. – Michelle Bachelet
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. – David Soul
The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. – Nick Clegg
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. – Fareed Zakaria
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. – Tony Kushner
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman
