History Quotes · Page 111

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

— Bruno Tonioli

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa

“The past is history, the future’s a mystery. If you’ve got a foot in each, you’re pissing on today.”

— Mel Ash

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

— Michael Steele

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

— Jim Leach

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

— Randy Travis

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

— Margaret Thatcher

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

— Thomas Jefferson

My aim is to write my own piece of history - to try to give joy to my family, all Real Madrid…

— Keylor Navas

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness…

— Henry Rollins

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

— Virginia Woolf

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how…

— Bill Gates

“What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!”

— Bryant McGill

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

“Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.”

— Marina Tavares Dias

“Even allowing for the imperfection of myths, it is enough to make us question, for that time and ours, the excuse of…

— Howard Zinn

It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe…

— Emma Bull

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century…

— Steven Weinberg

Some places, because of their spiritual history, are noted to be locations where people will often experience an open heaven. In fact,…

— Todd Bentley

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The world has far too much morality, at least in the sense of activity of people's moral instincts. If you look, and…

— Steven Pinker

“In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes…

— Italo Calvino

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has…

— Charlotte Bunch

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

— Chris Stein

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

Louisiana and Belgium have a long and strong history of working together for more than 40 years.

— John Bel Edwards

“Christianity spurs hate, division, and murder as it has throughout history.”

— David Silverman

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

— Adriana Trigiani

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

— Carroll Shelby

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

— John Coleman

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

— Adolf Hitler

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. Thats history right there.

— Dwyane Wade

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

— Ibrahim Babangida

“They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.”

— Bob Massie

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

— Errol Morris

“Are you aiming for our make-up to be the shortest in history or what?”

— Kristen Ashley

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

— John A. Macdonald