Historic Times Quotes

#1. I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America.

Frank Buckles

#3. Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

Bryant McGill

#4. My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

J. D. Souther

#5. Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Robert D. Putnam

#6. I haven't published a novel in six years; instead, I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss. On multiple occasions, serving on awards committees, I was actually required to write LORs to myself.

Julie Schumacher

#7. It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

Mark Twain

#8. The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.

George W. Bush

#9. You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.

Michael Morpurgo

#10. I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#11. He deserves to be a focus.

Courtney Cole

#12. The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd.

Steven Pinker

#13. Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

#14. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. For a story to be good it has to be in some way your own.

Me

#16. It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible.

James S.A. Corey

#17. Boston is by all Accounts a perfect Hellhole of republican Sentiment,

Diana Gabaldon

#18. People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Garth Brooks

#19. Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission
it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.

Fareed Zakaria