History Quotes · Page 132

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

— Katty Kay

“We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai”

— Eleni Papanou

“I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

— Thomas Hobbes

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

— Tom Ford

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

— Keith David

Matt Hardy is a tag team wrestler. He's one of the greatest tag team wresters in the history of tag team wrestling.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

— Desmond Tutu

If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will…

— Sarita Choudhury

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a…

— Lana Del Rey

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very…

— Louis Kronenberger

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got…

— Kim Cattrall

“The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any…

— Jonathan Zittrain

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read…

— Stephenie Meyer

“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And…

— Ray Bradbury

I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,…

— Ann Hood

I love architecture, I love buildings, I love history, buildings that have got a story to tell, and we can save the…

— George Clarke

“As I write this, I’m sitting in a café in Paris overlooking the Luxembourg Garden, just off of Rue Saint-Jacques. Rue Saint-Jacques…

— Timothy Ferriss

Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear…

— Frank Buckles

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,…

— Bill Vaughan

“Riding an omnibus or street railway was a novel experience. For the first time in human history, people other than the very…

— Michael Schudson

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.

— Phil Hellmuth

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

— Tupac Shakur

I was the youngest world champion in history when I won the WSOP in 1989 at age 24.

— Phil Hellmuth

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

— Frances Moore Lappé

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

— Peter Ustinov

“was not crazy.  He did not have a history of insanity in his family.  He had no excessive mental”

— Brian Harmon

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

— Isaac Newton

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

— John Smith

“The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

— Alan Moore

“He's my..." It takes me the longest moment in history to answer this question. "He's my soul mate.”

— C.M. Stunich