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" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "

David Weinberger

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" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "

Alice Temperley

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

" Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. "

" Fate and history have a similar feeling. They are weird mirrors to each other. "

" All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. "

" I did not come to NASA to make history. "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

" As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past. "

" A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. "

" If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. "

" Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us. "

" The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. "

" Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. "

" If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. "

Barry Eichengreen

" I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? "

Ferdinand Marcos

" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "

" There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. "

" While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. "

Mattie Stepanek

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. "

" I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it. "

" 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. "

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "