History Quotes · Page 131

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

— Alice Walker

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

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

— Joseph McElroy

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

— Albert Camus

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

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look…

— Joe Abercrombie

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even…

— Bill Kristol

“History: a context in which the capital letters decompose, and with them, the men who imagine and cherish them.”

— Emil M. Cioran

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

— Andrea Jung

I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault…

— Bobby Knight

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation…

— Ulysses S. Grant

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history…

— Margaret Atwood

“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study…

— Yaa Gyasi

It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your…

— Kurt Warner

“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole…

— Kenneth Clark

“Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the…

— Intizar Husain

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It…

— John Bruton

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember…

— Jim Butcher

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

— Harry S Truman

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

— William Allen White

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

— Rob Liefeld

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Peter Kuznick

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Mason Cooley

“examining the fortifications to-day with BISMARCK, I lent”

— Various

“Jeff: There's a lot of history in this city... Peanut: Translated: Old. As. Shit. ”

— Jeff Dunham

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

— John Morton

Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.

— Shehbaz Sharif

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

— Ed Dwight

The past is history, looking towards the future! Always chasing my sweet dreams!

— Anonymous

“There is no 'right side of history', there is only their side, and yours”

— Holden R. Snow

I'm from Raleigh, N.C. It's my home, the most beautiful place ever - but it has some racist history.

— P. J. Tucker