Contention existed before the earth was formed.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

History is written by the victors.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

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.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.