Paulo Coelho Quotes

Young man, I have lived in this house many years and have seen the occupants of the White House across the square come and go, and nothing you minor officials or the occupant of that house can do will affect the history of the world for long.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels.

World history is the history of the great cultures.

Being connected with individual lives reminds us in the most basic way of the human face of history. Too often we forget how significant the lives of ordinary people are.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The culminating manifestation of naval force in the history of the world.

Only the people can build world history.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of life.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

Revolutions are always the deepest memories of a people

… a day that will live in world history …

The West is the most powerful reality in the history of this country. It's always had a power, a presence, an attraction that differentiated it from the rest of the United States.

Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place.

All of us have a place in history.

From a long view of the history of mankind — seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

… words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

World history is the world's court.

It’s only at certain points in history that people realize just how much power that they have.