Best Quotes Of The Day

"I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history.’ The closest word for it is memory."

― David Miliband

"If I didn’t have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle."

"History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom."

― Daisaku Ikeda

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

― David McCullough

"I think my parents were happy that I’d gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, ‘Well if acting doesn’t work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.’ Fortunately, the acting worked out."

― Derek Jacobi

"But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place."

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."

― Douglas MacArthur

"If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history."

― Dominic Monaghan

"Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24."

― David M. Shoup

"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they’re whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they’ve got. I can’t possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."

― David Cronenberg

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