Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history their literary history their movie literacy their culture their language their religion whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that nor do I want to.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries including America. I admire women.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from history from hullabaloo from terrible unquiet fuss.

This empire unlike any other in the history of the world has been built primarily through economic manipulation through cheating through fraud through seducing people into our way of life through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have to stamp on it you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist it doesn't matter.'

Great writing can be done in biography history art.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

For the first time in our history ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior sensitive soul.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture in science industrial production as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

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.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637 the Banque Royale of 1719-20 the railway speculation of the 1840s the great crash of 1929.

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents letters diaries grainy video weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.