I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history then for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings as men or women by our age our history our profession by the state of the world.
Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Throughout history great leaders have known the power of humor.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
We are a big country with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.
In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
In the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
The chief condition on which life health and vigor depend on is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties increases its energy and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
We are all tourists in history and irony is what we win in wars.
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
We would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
When I was a graduate student the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation a race a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
People just want to hear some common sense and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.