History Quotes · Page 153

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

— Paulo Coelho

“The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.”

— Nick Hornby

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

— John W. Gardner

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

— Rudolf Steiner

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

— Henry Ford

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

— Joe Biden

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

— Alan Shepard

As history has shown, I don't think the UFC is in the business of doing favors for other people.

— Aljamain Sterling

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so…

— John Gresham Machen

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who…

— Bob Menendez

The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.

— Pete Buttigieg

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be…

— E. M. Forster

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the…

— Sylvia Earle

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,…

— Norman Mailer

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed…

— Dinaw Mengestu

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations.…

— Thomas Lynch

There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware…

— Hillary Clinton

“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved…

— Aldo Leopold

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…

— Anthony Giddens

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping…

— George Will

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled…

— Philip Treacy

“All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon.…

— Svetlana Chmakova

''History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice…

— Anonymous

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

If I had all the qualities that the newspapers are talking about, I'd be the best player in history.

— Krzysztof Piatek

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

— Robert Tew

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

— Dean Devlin

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

— Bill Duke

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

— Paul Eldridge

Yesturday is history. tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. that's why it's called the present.

— Anonymous

“And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes.”

— Brent Weeks

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

— Barbara Sukowa

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

— Stella Young

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

— Sarah Dessen

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

— James Gleick