Quotes About History

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

Sometimes taking part in a great battle will be the thing that will help to change the course of history. But sometimes you can do that simply by smiling, for no reason, at someone you happen to pass in the street. Without intending to, you might have saved the life of a complete stranger, who also thought he was useless and might have been ready to kill himself – until a smile gave him new hope and confidence.

If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago

It is imposible to understand sex as we see it nowadays - a mere response to a few physical stimuli. In reality, it is far more than that, and carries with it man's and humanity's entire cultural burden. Each time we face a new experience, we bring with us all past experiences - both good and bad - as well as those concepts which civilization has made into rules.

Setiap orang di dunia ini, apa pun pekerjaannya, memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dunia. Dan biasanya orang itu sendiri tidak menyadarinya.

if you're not in touch with your roots, you feel as if you've lost touch with the world

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it will continue to happen until the end of time, or

people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want. "We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

The kettlebell is an ancient Russian weapon against weakness.

saw you, Sally Hemings is the name of it. It's in paperback for $3.25. She was Thomas Jefferson's slave and mistress for twenty-plus years. A really good book with real

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.

after the ancient ondul fashion.

It is but another war somewhere. Who knows what all this fighting to and fro is about? But so it has been since I was a lad and so will it be after I am dead and well I know it.

by some 220 years Gutenberg's lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.