H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.”
“Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.”
“Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.”
“Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'”
“Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.”
“Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, and the fields was silenced. I'm very interested in how food appears in the historical record and animates our understanding of the South. It provides texture both to the past and to our contemporary experience. My work is not about discovering new voices, but rather it encourages voices that have been silenced to come forward and speak a little louder.”
“Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making.”
“Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.”
“HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.”
“Historicamente, as sociedades liberais têm sido motores de crescimento económico, criadoras de novas tecnologias e produtoras de uma cultura e arte vibrantes. Isto aconteceu precisamente porque eram liberais. (…) É precisamente a capacidade que as sociedades liberais têm de incubar a inovação, tecnologia, cultura e crescimento sustentável que determinarão a geopolítica do futuro. (…) Muita da história do crescimento espantoso da China ao longo das últimas quatro décadas tem sido produto do seu próprio namoro com o liberalismo.”
Source: Liberalismo e Seus Descontentes
“Historicamente, salários baixos, poucos benefícios sociais e uma elevada taxa de rotatividade de pessoal ajudaram a que os empregos em cadeias de pronto-a-comer fossem relativamente fáceis de encontrar, e estes postos de trabalho, conjuntamente com outros empregos não especializados no comércio retalhista, proporcionaram uma espécie de rede de segurança do setor privado para os trabalhadores com menos opções: estes empregos têm oferecido tradicionalmente um rendimento de último recurso quando não existem melhores alternativas.”
Source: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
“Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Historicism is born of our despair in the rationality and responsibility of our actions. It is a debased hope and a debased faith, an attempt to replace the hope and the faith that springs from our moral enthusiasm and the contempt for success by a certainty that springs from a pseudo-science; a pseudoscience of the stars, or of ‘human nature,’ or of historical destiny.”
Source: The Open society & its enemies: Vol 2 Hegel & Marx
“Historien, den gode historien ligger godt for det nordlandske lynnet. Nordlendingene de er noe for seg sjøl. Det er hva jeg kaller elegant fekting når to av dem som virkelig kan kunsten, tørner sammen med sine historier. Det som kjennetegner den nordlandske historien er at den er enkel, og den har alltid et poeng. Dette som for meg står som det karakteristiske, har jeg prøvd å få frem i det jeg forteller.”
“Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.”
“Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
Source: Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends
“Histories don't make men; men make histories.”
“Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.”
Source: A Leaf in the Storm: And Other Stories
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
“Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.”
“Histories of the Kennedy Space Center acknowledge without exaggeration that the obstacle posed by the mosquitoes was so serious that NASA quite literally could not have put a man on the moon by Kennedy's "before the decade is out" deadline without the invention of DDT. In this way, the challenges of spaceflight reveal themselves to be distinctly terrestrial.”
Source: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
“Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“Historije jakih su priče o pojedincima. Plutarh! A historija slabih — to je povjesnica čovečanstva”
Source: Proljeća Ivana Galeba
“History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1919-1962
“History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.”
“History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods”
“History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant”
“History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.”
“History - the devil's scripture”
“History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.”
“History -- its what those bitter old men write.”
“history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.”
Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
“History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.”
Source: The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook
“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.”
Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society
“History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.”
“History abounds in and around New York City, however much of it is buried in the concrete of newer construction. The downtown financial district from Battery Park to Wall Street is such a historical district. Trinity Church at Wall Street and Broadway and the Churchyard surrounding it is where Alexander Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton along with other notables are buried. The story of Alexander Hamilton is an important part of New York City’s history and has become a Broadway musical.
At the top of the Palisades in Weehawken is a small park known as the Dueling Grounds. This Revolutionary War site, overlooking New York City to the east, and what had been Half Moon Bay to the north and directly beneath it, is where Alexander Hamilton, a founding father of the United States, was mortally wounded by a single shot from Aaron Burr’s dueling pistol. He died the following day in Greenwich Village at the home of his friend William Bayard Jr.”
“History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.”
Source: Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
“History admits no rules; only outcomes.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.”
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,
by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and
genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one
part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.”
“History after all is the true poetry.”
Source: The French Revolution
“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.”
“History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“History always wins.”
Source: A Short History of Russia: Tracing Russia's Path Through History, from Its Wars and Conquests, Royal Dynasties, Revolutions into the Modern Era Under Putin―a Concise Exploration of a Complex Nation
“History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.”