History Quotes · Page 125

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

— M. H. Abrams

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

— Lawrence Summers

“History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

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

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

“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

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still…

— Michael Carrick

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

— Carl Jung

“Our morality changes everything that holds truth - while the hate you paint with just recolours the lines of history.”

— Laura Chouette

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

— Kiki Smith

“WARNING Any Relationship to any historical fact WHATSOEVER is entirely coincidental. You have been WARNED”

— Cressida Cowell

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a…

— Felix Dennis

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

— Vishal Mangalwadi

“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider…

— Ananyo Bhattacharya

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is.…

— Michael Crichton

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We…

— Saul Bellow

When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I…

— Olivier Theyskens

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and…

— Carol Moseley Braun

“From Adam to the present, the whole history of the world has been one recurring instance of personal and group apostasy after…

— Bruce R. McConkie

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country…

— Herman Melville

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

We have a long history of making smart long-term investments in New Hampshire.

— Chris Sununu

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

— Eva Herzigova

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

— John Dean

“The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stuart Little will go down in history as the most expensive actor in motion pictures.

— Rob Minkoff

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

— Fred Van Lente

I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

— Charles Barkley