180 Personal History Quotes

Following is our list of personal history quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what is history.

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Famous Personal History Quotes

History is the autobiography of a madman. — Alexander Herzen

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy. — Leonard Sweet

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. — Murray Walker

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. — Cotton Mather

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? — Steve Maraboli

Power is knowing your past. — Spike Lee

You write your life story by the choices you make. — Helen Mirren

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. — Louise Erdrich

Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life. — Caroline Myss

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer

Short Personal History Quotes

  • Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin
  • History is the zoology of the human race. — Franz Grillparzer
  • History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
  • There is no life that does not contribute to history. — Dorothy West
  • Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. — Herodotus
  • History is a tragedy, not a morality tale. — I. F. Stone
  • Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. — Simone Weil
  • History is Philosophy teaching by example. — Thucydides
  • History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — Jacob Burckhardt
  • History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi

Top 10 Personal History Quotes

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least. — Dorothy Day

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated. — Donald Woods Winnicott

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In our practice, we think 40 is the age at which a person should have their first colonoscopy if they have no history of colon cancer. About when I had my first one was 40 or 41. — Peter Attia

Being different and thinking different makes a person memorable. History does not remember the forgettable. — Chamath Palihapitiya

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives. — Anita Borg

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. — Sonia Johnson

I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? — Michael Saylor

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. — Dallas Willard

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. — Harriet Tubman

Personal History Image Quotes

Personal history quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

History Quotes

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State. — Unknown Author

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. — Haile Selassie

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie

Personal history quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. — Marcus Garvey

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions. — Subhas Chandra Bose

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. - Fidel Castro

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. — Fidel Castro

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny. — T. D. Jakes

Donald Trump is obviously the most pro-gay candidate in American electoral history. — Milo Yiannopoulos

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation. — Ibn Khaldun

What Is History Quotes

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. - Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning. — Carter G. Woodson

Personal history quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. — Noam Chomsky

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Personal history quote Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool. — Samuel L. Jackson

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds. — Thomas Keating

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. — David Attenborough

What is Money? will be regarded as the defining question of our time in history. — Robert Breedlove

Personal Stories Quotes

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak

Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher

Personal history quote Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having every
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. — Helen Rowland

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. — William Feather

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable. — Anthony Jeselnik

Personal history quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long. — Deepika Padukone

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to. — George Jones

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there. — Priyanka Chopra

Personal Journey Quotes

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. — Ram Dass

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. — Paulo Coelho

Personal history quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination — William Bridges

Your are more powerful than you know. Do not delay your journey to personal excellence. — Tom Bilyeu

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. — John Eldredge

Personal history quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16. — Nicola Sturgeon

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life. — Donny Robinson

Life is like reading a novel or running a marathon. It’s not so much about reaching a goal but rather about the journey itself and the experiences along the way. — Edward O. Thorp

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. — John Steinbeck

Personal Narrative Quotes

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss

They trap you in the toxic narrative that quitting is a weakness, an easy way out or, worse yet, that quitting is failure. I assure you – quitting is for winners and quitting is a skill. — Steven Bartlett

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us. — Richard Avedon

Personal history quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum." — Amy Hempel

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. — Henry Giroux

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. — Johann Most

Personal history quote Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!

The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic. — Chris Hedges

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE — Mark Twain

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. — Paul Auster

In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point. — Dan Barber

Biography Quotes

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise. — C. Wright Mills

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White

Personal history quote What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another eprson, what you do to anoth
What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another eprson, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgement and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room. — Paul Dirac

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy. — Harold Lasswell

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals. — Dorothy Hodgkin

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. — David Bowie

Personal Statement Quotes

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I want to go on record as saying that I am chasing cool. — James Murray

I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers. — Dana White

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. — Stephen Covey

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling. — Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the ways by which astrology tricks human brains is via the Barnum effect, which is the process by which individuals take general and vague statements that could apply to anyone and anywhere, and find personal meaning in them. — Gad Saad

The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer. — Elvin Jones

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing. — Omar Sharif

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others. — Joel Manby

Personal Question Quotes

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl Rogers

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude LeviStrauss

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? — Gregory Bateson

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you? — Tony Benn

The questions you ask yourself will determine the course of your life. — Tom Bilyeu

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? — Robert Nozick

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years. — Rahul Gandhi

Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime. — Annie Jacobsen

Personal Experiences Quotes

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see. — Corrie Ten Boom

Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him. — Neymar

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. — Oswald Chambers

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else — William Glasser

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov

Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — Mae Jemison

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present. — Jack Kornfield

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. — Arthur Miller

My Biography Quotes

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. — Norman Spinrad

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. — Margot Asquith

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness. — Thomas Mcguane

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911) — Ernest Rutherford

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. — Steve Jobs

I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do. — Steve Jobs

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility. — Bronislaw Malinowski

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose. — Charles Darwin

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity. — Antoine Lavoisier

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More Personal History Quotes

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation. — Roy Lessin

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. — Eckhart Tolle

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice. — Angela Davis

Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view. — Chancellor Williams

An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community. — John Stott

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war. — James David Vance

The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe. — William Lane Craig

The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships. — Rick Rubin

Choosing a creator is always difficult. It’s not a question of taking a talented creator and saying, ‘We’ll employ the person in such and such a business and it will work’. It isn’t true. It’s far more complicated. We need to find the talent, the ideas, and the personality that can adapt to the spirit, the history of the brand. — Bernard Arnault

When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches. — Tony Evans

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him. — Sholem Asch

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. — John Thorn

Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship. — William Lane Craig

Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray. — Jaroslav Pelikan

Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we put the world on the path to end extreme poverty; the year we place sustainability at the heart of our future; and the year that we agree that every person should be able to lead a life of dignity and opportunity. — Kathy Calvin

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of a primal universal presence. I have dedicated my life and creative energy to capturing these transcendent moments in which a connection is made between the subject, the photographer, and the viewer. — Joyce Tenneson

I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States. — Bernie Sanders

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words. — Kate Grenville

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. — Potter Stewart

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. — Harlan Ellison

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture. — Gunnar Myrdal

I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?" — Carine Roitfeld

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century. — Stephen Hawking

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. — Carl Sagan

Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most. — Jean Vanier

It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch. — Milan Kundera

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. — Stefan Zweig

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant

History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried. — Barry Goldwater

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful! — Gustave Flaubert

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces. — William Barclay

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest. — B. F. Skinner

Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations. — Carlos Castaneda

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice. — Angela Davis

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