History Quotes · Page 130

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

— David Luiz

2017 is going to be the biggest year for martial arts in the history of the Earth.

— B. J. Penn

“History repeats itself and mine is full of failures, so I am not surprised.”

— Akhil Sharma

Use Black History month as an opportunity to tell your family history as far back as you can go.

— Anonymous

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

— Mike Tyson

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It…

— David Grinspoon

“Never be afraid of being yourself. Be different; be unique; be a mystery. Always remember that unique people are the ones who…

— Mouloud Benzadi

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply…

— Josh Holloway

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete…

— Emilie Autumn

It's really impressive what those like Messner and Walter Bonatti have done - they are a big part of the history of…

— Ueli Steck

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

“There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all…

— Captain Price

Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's…

— Kevin Spacey

“Canadian researcher Donald Dutton . . has written that marital work with a man who has a history of relationship violence may…

— Susan Weitzman

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end…

— Terence McKenna

I think religious movies are more of a subset of the broader historical trend, and also the fact that there is more…

— Dolph Lundgren

“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together…

— Reza Aslan

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in…

— Louis Sullivan

The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by…

— Sharice Davids

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving…

— Walter E. Williams

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

— Robert Byrd

“reviewing History's great idea, the one way you can make things change”

— Anonymous

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

— Bill Johnson

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

— Arthur Kemp

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I went up a weight class and took off the head of the greatest lightweight in history.

— Patricio Freire

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

— S.E. Cupp

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

— Duke of Wellington

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

— Anonymous

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

— Thomas Sowell

I've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.

— Keith Thurman

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

— George Eliot

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

I like classicism. I like historic reference. I like something new with something almost ancient.

— Rick Owens

America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.

— John McCain

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson