Istory Quotes

#1. Istory is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and the Iliums was caused merely by some economic factor concerning trade ...

Jack Kerouac

#2. [H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

Alan Caruba

#3. [H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

Hugo Black

#4. [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Will Durant

#5. [H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

Dan Simmons

#6. [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Max Nordau

#7. There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

Dominic Smith

#8. Am I thy looking-glass that thou callest me knave?

Oscar Wilde

#9. The seeds of freedom ... have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.

Henry McNeal Turner

#10. As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'

Nick Denton

#11. Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

Paris Hilton

#14. Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

Robin Quivers

#15. When she is told
Her skin is too dark;
I do not hesitate to offer,
That the sun loved her so much
It kissed her more
Than the rest of us.

Anonymous

#16. When my husband was a child in Sweden, he only had two television stations and by the age of six (he claims), he walked half a mile to school by himself in the snow.

Heather Jonasson