Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We are returned to office to change the course of history—nothing less.

Islam and its tradition have until now encountered modernity as a cultural aggression (al-ghazw al-fikri), not as a historical phenomenon.

Don't let it happen when the time comes, that you will be blamed by the next generation because you did nothing. Don't allow yourself to just stay at the side, clap your hands, smile, and wave your as we create history. i hope you can join in creating history.

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

For too long we have let history outrun our government’s ability to keep up with it.

The very name of the Bureau stood for a thing in the South which for two centuries and better men had refused even to argue, -- that life amid free Negroes was simply unthinkable, the maddest of experiments. The agents which the Bureau could command varied all the way from unselfish philanthropists to narrow-minded busybodies and thieves; and even though it be true that the average was far better than the worst, it was the one fly that helped to spoil the ointment. Then, amid all this crouched the freed slave, bewildered between friend and foe. He had emerged from slavery.

America’s history is a continual process of trying to live up to our ideals, falling short, succeeding in some places and trying again others

In order to make the changes work, the majority of members of society that has entered into the changes must wake up every morning with a feeling of the great historical moment, with the feeling of something big and extraordinary.

Each generation drives its plow over the bones of the dead.

Change is the raw material of history.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

The field equations and the whole history of general relativity have been complicated.

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

Every previous era looks innocent.

I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.