History Quotes · Page 107

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

— Paul Rusesabagina

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

— John Updike

“it becomes crystal clear that history is moving relentlessly towards unity.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

— Niall Ferguson

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.

— Holbrook Jackson

“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”

— Cherise Sinclair

“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.”

— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided…

— Aubrey Menen

; You cant rewrite your history when your choices hurt others in ways you can never understand. Take responsibility and ownership instead…

— Anonymous

History suggests that big corporate maneuvers tend to coincide with changes in morning-TV fortunes, either because the new managers tinker with the…

— Brian Stelter

“Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended…

— Patrick N. Allitt

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

— George R. R. Martin

“The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their…

— Abraham Heschel

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly…

— Lucian of Samosata

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher…

— C. V. Wedgwood

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with…

— Louis Farrakhan

“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel…

— Saul Bellow

Mum encouraged my love of history. She was always dragging me off to visit historic properties, and then I reached an age…

— Lucy Worsley

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a…

— A. B. Yehoshua

“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how…

— Robert Harris

All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in…

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma,…

— Anthea Butler

“Defense, it is clear, is not enough. To find an answer, we decided to mount the most intensive consultation process in the…

— Michael R. Bloomberg

“I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history.”

— Dennis B. Boyer

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

— Idries Shah

My appearance qualifies me for historic characterizations, going back to the year one.

— Charlton Heston

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

— Wes Craven

History always tells a story... That's why you must always clear it before your dad uses the computer!

— Anonymous

All the statistics and history doesn't matters but MOMENTS does..

— Ketan Gandhi

Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.

— Andre Beaufre

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

— Kyle Abraham

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

— Robert Longo

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

— Emily V. Gordon

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

— Dana Gould

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

— Rosa Parks

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

— Iris Chang

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

— Niall Ferguson

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

— Nancy Pelosi

“it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.”

— Max Hastings