I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

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.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.