Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Dissents speak to a future age.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.