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History's a resource.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

I am not giving up my history and what I have done in my music because I love it and I am very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

But I think it is more that when you are young, you are invincible, you are immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you are inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It is fixed. You can not change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

History passes the final judgment.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

I am quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we did not have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.