Alistair Horne quote: "History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939."

In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few day...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 2...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Ha...
ALISTAIR HORNE

In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British di...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a th...
ALISTAIR HORNE

In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crow...
ALISTAIR HORNE

There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S....
ALISTAIR HORNE

Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Ag...
ALISTAIR HORNE

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towa...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious ref...
ALISTAIR HORNE

The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet
ALISTAIR HORNE

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential electi...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxf...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in Jun...
ALISTAIR HORNE

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
LENA HORNE

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bothe...
MARILYN HORNE

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just...
LENA HORNE

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I&...
LENA HORNE

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
LENA HORNE

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace ...
LENA HORNE

It is not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.
LENA HORNE

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
LENA HORNE

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
LENA HORNE

If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful
HORNE TOOKE

I've met him. He was here a couple of weeks ago; I met him then. I know his name well.
ANDY HORNE

Ron Oden. Is that his name? It rings a bell. Can you give me a hint? If you asked me to pick him out...
ANDY HORNE

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I...
LENA HORNE

The last relay was excellent.
CHRIS HORNE

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance
LENA HORNE

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just d...
LENA HORNE

We were unlucky that it didn't end in a tie. This was a game where a tie should have been the result...
PAUL HORNE

There will be ample opportunity for public involvement. But if it dominates every work session, not ...
BOB HORNE

We'll get the group together, have them introduce themselves and talk a little bit about why they wa...
BOB HORNE

I don't think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award.
LENA HORNE

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
LENA HORNE

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
LENA HORNE

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
LENA HORNE

The NHL has been polling our fans, who have consistently told us that when we come back it should be...
ED HORNE

We now have the ability for our clubs to be stable. Across our market, fans need to have hope in the...
ED HORNE

I don't know if any one thing is a bigger hurdle than the other. We are demonstrating to the fans we...
ED HORNE

The notion is providing more entertainment than ever before. The new rules will allow for more offen...
ED HORNE

We wanted the campaign to match the quality and drama of the 'My NHL' regular-season campaign, while...
ED HORNE

We are excited to welcome someone of Mike's marketing experience to the NHL. Our efforts to further ...
ED HORNE

This is a dream come true for a community, to win the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to host a live ...
ED HORNE

The Vintage Hockey Program commemorates hockey's rich, 87-year history. The program involves the ent...
ED HORNE

We have the most passionate and loyal fans in the world. What they think is important.
ED HORNE

Our plans were well thought through. I believe the dialogue we had with the fans have provided the b...
ED HORNE

Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.
DEBBIE HORNE

We were thrilled to receive this donation, because we're a 100-percent donor-dependent organization....
DEBBIE HORNE

Disney World is our most popular one.
DEBBIE HORNE

We grant wishes for 2- to 18-year-olds with life-threatening medical conditions.
DEBBIE HORNE

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit last summer, natural gas prices spiked sharply. As sources in ...
FRED HORNE

We're using every available tool to keep rates in check. The amount of increase Wilson Energy is abs...
FRED HORNE

Some analysts predict that we're at the peak of this winter's gas prices now.
FRED HORNE

When you get to the playoffs, you'll win it with pitching, defense and timely hitting. That was a go...
JASON HORNE

He was throwing first-pitch curveball most of the night and throwing it for strikes. That's what it ...
JASON HORNE

They are probably the most shedding dog you will ever have.
MARCIA HORNE

It'd be better to have the win.
JUSTIN HORNE

We played as a team. We gave up (20) points in the first quarter -- that was too many.
JUSTIN HORNE

He played an excellent game. He got the ball and scored inside, got rebounds, stayed out of foul tro...
JUSTIN HORNE

(Diels) wanted me to take it to the hole. I haven't been shooting well from the outside so I tried t...
JUSTIN HORNE

Wireless-enabling sensors demands such an extreme combination of price and performance that we expec...
NICK HORNE

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
LENA HORNE

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job - acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean bac...
ALISTAIR COOKE

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mo...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow...
ALISTAIR COOKE

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratu...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a...
ALISTAIR COOKE

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any ge...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not h...
ALISTAIR DARLING

The claimants' allegation of wrongdoing has been completely dismissed,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Unless we look at that, we will have huge problems - absolute gridlock - in 20 or 30 years' time,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of roa...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestio...
ALISTAIR DARLING

Today we are sending out a very clear message to those who drive without insurance - there is now no...
ALISTAIR DARLING

already more severe than the rest of the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING

We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING

Snowfall in January is hardly unexpected,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Washington
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful w...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
ALISTAIR COOKE

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheer...
ALISTAIR COOKE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i...
ALISTAIR COOKE

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
ALISTAIR COOKE

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly im...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR

There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ...
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR

Green coffee stores up to three years. It does not deteriorate and can be kept until the price is ri...
ALISTAIR MACNAB

The number of people already employed in the industry is in the thousands, and it's at all levels, i...
ALISTAIR MACNAB

Houston is now on the coffee map where it wasn't before.
ALISTAIR MACNAB

We're talking about a lot of homes.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

They wondered, if you cannot have everybody holding hands in perfect harmony like a 1970s Coca-Cola ...
ALISTAIR HUDSON

Time does not, and shall never, equal experience.
ALISTAIR HARDING

It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo...
ALISTAIR GOODMAN

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ...
ALISTAIR BEGG

If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE

The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle...
ALISTAIR HUDSON

All impressions are certainly not created equal. We tell our clients to beware of remnant inventory....
ALISTAIR GOODMAN

These are hot button issues.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everyb...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked ...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation,...
ALISTAIR BEGG

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job-acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be pub...
ALISTAIR BEGG

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of referenc...
ALISTAIR PETRIE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. ...
ALISTAIR MCHARG

I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-j...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the pr...
ALISTAIR URQUHART

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
ALISTAIR DARLING

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
ALISTAIR BEGG

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
HARRIET VAN HORNE

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

Prayer is the voice of faith.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor lo...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
HARRIET VAN HORNE

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
WILLIAN VAN HORNE

Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-w...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hat...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all
HARRIET VAN HORNE

It's still shocking he could get himself into the mental state where he could walk into a jewelry st...
DAVE VAN HORNE

All of us had known how hard the death of their son had hit them. Even prior to that, he had become ...
DAVE VAN HORNE

He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball....
DAVE VAN HORNE

Tom took great pride in the fact he didn't miss a game. Like a lot of young broadcasters of the '60s...
DAVE VAN HORNE

It wasn't just a love of the game but a love of the people in the game that he'll be remembered for....
DAVE VAN HORNE

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exem...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to of...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. A...
HARRIET VAN HORNE

It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY

History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.

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Alistair Horne

History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.

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