Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Constitution
History
Tradition
Related Quotes:
" Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. "
Vikas Swarup
Culture
Heart
History
" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "
Manmohan Singh
World
Danger
History
" Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. "
Octavio Paz
Nature
Language
True
" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "
Rudyard Kipling
History
Form
Forgotten
" If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American
White
You
" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "
Winston Churchill
Want
History
Simple
" Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history. "
Guy Standing
Water
Fishing
Rights
" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "
Norodom Sihanouk
Place
Dishonesty
Time
" The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time. "
Andy Dunn
History
Ideas
Innovation
" You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. "
David McCullough
Know
History
Democracy
" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "
Arthur Henderson
Fail
History
Influence
" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "
Lin-Manuel Miranda
History
Determines
Subjective
" Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. "
James Buchan
Financial
Devil
History
" Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. "
Cokie Roberts
Woman
You
Think
" History is written by the victors. "
Winston Churchill
Victors
Written
History
" The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. "
Jon Meacham
Serious
More
Past
" A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech. "
Brett Kavanaugh
Ban
Arms
Speech
" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "
Karl Marx
Revolutions
History
" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "
Richard M. Nixon
Easy
History
Life
" Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. "
Tariq Ramadan
Diversity
Rich
Land
" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "
Kanye West
Too
History
Like
" The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent. "
Tammy Duckworth
Immigrants
Overlook
History
" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "
Isabel Allende
Thoughts
History
Women
" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "
John F. Kennedy
Once
Like
Live
" The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. "
Shimon Peres
Nation
Believe
Born
" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "
Stephen Hawking
History
Time
Had
" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "
Douglas MacArthur
War
Peace
Honor
" The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive. "
Kim Novak
Loved
History
Trees
" So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. "
Phillip Noyce
Story
Questions
Opportunity
" Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. "
Laurence Yep
Adventure
You
Realize