Pivotal/history

Famous quotes containing the words pivotal and/or history:

    Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
    Caroline Bird (b. 1915)

    The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)