“British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.” TryingYearsAnswersHistoryChangedHumourWarmBritishMinistersPrimePrime MinisterGladstone Author:W. C. Sellar
“We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.” WorldWayYearsChangeHistoryChangedHundredYears Ago Author:Felix Adler
“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.” MenTryingYearsBelieveStillsTwoLastsI BelieveHistoryHavensChangedThousandConsequenceTriumphSpiteThousand Years Book:Civilization Source: Civilization
“I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.” NamesHistoryChangedHollywoodTeethNosesFixed Author:Barbra Streisand
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” WorldMadeHistoryFateChangedGoldLipsCurvesIvory Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.” WayWarFeelingsPoliticalCoursesLostForceAbilityHistoryAudienceConditionsChangedInspireProductsRevolutionCircumstancesPrejudiceConvictionGermanySpokesRealisingRhetoricHumiliationNazismPrevailingNazi GermanyPlight Author:Ian Kershaw
“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansArtWarPhilosophyUseNationsPracticeHistoryEnvironmentConditionsChangedBehaviorPopulationNuclearAbandonedHolocaustPollutionHuman BehaviorContraceptives Author:B. F. Skinner