Untaught History Quotes & Sayings

Love is there when you share. — Debasish Mridha

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles De Gaulle

True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of — Carl Henegan

Ways and Means Committee Chairman says the tax code is tax code is longer than the Bible without the good news — David Camp

What people want is not the easy peaceful life that allows us to think of our unhappy condition, nor the dangers of war, nor the burdens of office, but the agitation that takes our mind off it and diverts us. That is why we prefer the hunt to the capture. — Blaise Pascal

It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life. — Ariel Pink

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other. — Norbert Wiener

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. — Francis Jeffrey

In the realm of faith, there is no fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas. — Jessica Sanchez

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt. — Esmeralda Santiago

No task will seem trying, and no sinner unattractive, to one whose heart has been thus possessed with the Savior's heart of love. — A.B. Simpson

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor