Popular Trends: 2010-2012

World History: Scrap book - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. - Alexander Hamilton

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

Faddict: Someone who has to try every new trend that comes along - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

He had only one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. - Charles Dickens

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all. - Kevin Myers

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. - Amity Shlaes

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

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

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. - Norman Vincent Peale

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush