It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences because it's not profitable and now Newt as the highest-paid historian in American history may be an encouragement to people to study history.
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.
If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
History could pass for a scarlet text its jot and title graven red in human blood.
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that he is a centrist just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!
Without words without writing and without books there would be no history there could be no concept of humanity.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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.
Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
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.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline federal health insurance the retirement program the 403(b) program which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.
I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
My cooking philosophy what I try to do is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things like molecular cuisine with a lot of additives and chemicals which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.