Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

Veterans have the skills employers want - discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.

No matter where people stand on the policies that led to the conflicts, Americans recognize the depth of sacrifice and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Everyone agrees these heroes deserve every advantage we can give them.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.