#History

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

"I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products."

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

"People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal."

"Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding."

"The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls."

"Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do."

"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor."

"Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war."

"She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war."

"History develops, art stands still."

"It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself."

"Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives."

"There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul."

"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."

"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."

"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."