History Quotes · Page 117

“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties.”

— Albert Camus

“Isn't history breaking so fast that you have to anticipate it?”

— Joseph McElroy

Live out of your imagination, not your history. --Stephen Covey

— Stephen Covey

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

— Azzedine Alaia

At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge.

— Ian McDiarmid

Deadpool was intended, as Cable was, to be tied into Wolverine's history.

— Rob Liefeld

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

— William Allen White

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

— Harry S Truman

We have far too many Tudors. Henry VIII is far too over-rated. He's become the ultimate brand name, like the Marks &…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself…

— Frank Fairfield

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all…

— Karl Marx

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

— A. J. P. Taylor

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

— Glenn Beck

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

— Martin O'Malley

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of…

— Alison Sweeney

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

— Imre Lakatos

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.…

— Thomas Frank

“survey—preparation and overview, or introduction • contextual analysis—consideration of the historical and literary contexts of the text • formal analysis—of the form,…

— Michael J. Gorman

It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine.…

— Lawrence Wright

I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon…

— Vaclav Klaus

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as…

— David Cameron

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,…

— Catharine Beecher

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make…

— Albert Camus

As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

— Mason Cooley

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

— Anonymous

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

— Ronald Reagan

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

“Pilots have an established history of committing mass murder during their suicides.”

— Steven Magee

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

— Donald Trump

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

— Wendell Berry

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

— Joseph Glanvill

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

— John Sharp Williams

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

— Stephen Hawking

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

— Jacques Le Blanc

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.

— Michael Dibdin

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

— Anonymous