I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honour for me. There's no better time to try this than now. View quotes by Michael Phelps
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. View quotes by Terry Hands
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. View quotes by Harold Wilson
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. View quotes by Edmund Wilson
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. View quotes by Queen Elizabeth II
History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive. View quotes by Francis Grimke
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. View quotes by Cyril Connolly
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. View quotes by Greg Knight
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. View quotes by Reggie Jackson
I have concluded the history of this century and put the finishing touches to it and not another word will I write. [Last words] View quotes by David Chytraus
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. View quotes by Tom Stoppard
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left View quotes by Robert Lynd
Anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. [On lessons from history and what they can tell us] View quotes by James Hill
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with View quotes by Golda Meir
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood. View quotes by Eric Hoffer
Humans are here today because our particular line never fractured - never once at any of the billion points that could have erased us from history. View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
