Quotes About Significance

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.