Quote Finder

Quotations
Quote of the Day | Members | Quote books

Quotes:

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after the antibiotic.
View quotes by Jane Haddam

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
View quotes by Hilaire Belloc

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
View quotes by Mao Zedong

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
View quotes by Jefferson Davis

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
View quotes by Honore De Balzac

It's scandalous and I would love to see them lose their next six games and see how they feel under that sort of pressure [on Boro resting players vs Man City - Warnock, the biggest moaning manager in the history of the premiership]
View quotes by Neil Warnock

He has shown, as perhaps the most successful chancellor in our country's history, that he's got the strength and the experience and the judgment to make a great prime minister. [yes Tony we all love the fact he destroyed everyone's pension]
View quotes by Tony Blair

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
View quotes by Camille Paglia

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
View quotes by Pierre Omidyar

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
View quotes by Harri Holkeri

Mike's [Ruddock] place in Welsh rugby history is assured. He will go down as a fine ambassador, a wonderful coach, and a fine gentleman.
View quotes by David Pickering

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Cavalry, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
View quotes by Abbott E Kittredge

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
View quotes by Barbara Tuchman

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say
View quotes by Will Durant

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor people without resources or options. [why do they need it more exactly?]
View quotes by Henry Hampton

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
View quotes by Max Eastman

History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
View quotes by Karl Marx

In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history
View quotes by Edward Young

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!
View quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
View quotes by Vladimir Putin

View Results: page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11



Perform another search

© SaidWhat 2007  |   Help  |   Advertise  |   Links  |  Home  |  Clarity Media   |   Contact Us

Quotes & Authors

Author Quotes (A - Z) Popular Authors
Funny quotes Celebrity quotes Business quotes Sports quotes Famous quotes Political quotes Inspiring quotes Movie quotes Silly quotes
Browse Search Best Quotes Fictional Characters Popular Quotes Favorite Quotes By Event Research Quotes Job / Occupation Keywords Topics Song Lyrics Favourite Celebrity Proverbs Phrase Finder