History Quotes · Page 109

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Memorialization is not a passive practice but an active conversation.”

— Aanchal Malhotra

You don't have to be a superhero to change the arc of history.

— Chieh Huang

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

— George Takei

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

— Thomas Carlyle

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

— LeBron James

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Darwin’s picture of the history of life “contradict[ed] what the animal forms buried in the rocky strata of our earth tell us…

— Stephen C. Meyer

“Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody’s around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it…

— Craig Johnson

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate…

— Dominic Monaghan

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

— Archibald F. Bennett

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

— John Bel Edwards

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies…

— Safak Pavey

“The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Had Napoleon been thoroughly unselfish, Grant suggested, he would have been the greatest man in history, such was his military genius. When…

— Ron Chernow

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are…

— Robert M. Gates

To be a Pole does not mean just to speak Polish or to feel close to other Poles, but to value the…

— Roman Dmowski

“As the conference continued it occurred to me finally that it wasn't really about Indian history as it was written, but really…

— Tanuja Desai Hidier

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist…

— Zephyr Teachout

“There, publicly throwing off the mask under which he had hitherto concealed his real character and feelings, he made a speech painting…

— Livy

Expression is never considered a given, and it is in fact maybe not what's most interesting about making art. Making art, since…

— Kurt Ralske

“For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy…

— D.M. Murdock

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

— Eric Kripke

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

— Jodi Picoult

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

— Ishmael Reed

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

— Georges Lefebvre

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

— William Shakespeare

“Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.”

— Leila Sales

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

— Alan Patricof

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

— Nikita Khrushchev

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

— Leonard Sweet

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that makind enjoyed...

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

— David Hume

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

— Anonymous

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

— Jonathan Lethem