"Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace." - Arthur HendersonTweet
"The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time." - Muhammad IqbalTweet
"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world." - Colin PowellTweet
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks." - Howard NemerovTweet
"My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself." - Julie AndrewsTweet
"Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open." - Jerry SaltzTweet
"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." - Robert A. HeinleinTweet
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood." - George S. PattonTweet
"The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it." - Arthur SmithTweet
"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens." - Coretta Scott KingTweet