History Quotes · Page 154

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

— Gregory Maguire

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

— Ethan Suplee

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

— Juan Manuel Marquez

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English.

— John Daly

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

“Every man has a history worth knowing, if he could tell it, or if we could draw it from him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.”

— Allan Wolf

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling…

— Florence Welch

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

— Charles Kennedy

“It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.”

— Jack L. Chalker

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it…

— Colum McCann

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very…

— Kenneth Baker

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for…

— Will Durant

“ Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the “higher power” of nature.”

— Erich Fromm

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly…

— Herbert Hoover

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the…

— Mircea Eliade

“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence…

— C. JoyBell C

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without…

— Edward Gibbon

“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow…

— Betty Friedan

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which…

— Robert Penn Warren

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

“The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're…

— Timothy D. Snyder

The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.

— Martin O'Malley

Being a part of the Women of Honor championship tournament is historical.

— Brandi Rhodes

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

— Sidney Hook

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

— Howard Zinn

You must overcome you sufferings in other to make history.

— Onuh Justus Izuchukwu

... hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...

— Spiro T. Agnew

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

— Wole Soyinka

I've had a lot of history saying bad things about Jets fans.

— Jason Taylor

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

— Larry Wall

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

— Harry Reid

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

— Kanye West

Number deleted, text message thread deleted & call history. *deep breath*...im done with you.

— Anonymous

I must be the only actress in history who has been asked to be naked for untitillating reasons.

— Kathy Burke

“History is sacred—like a nature hike. ‘Leave only footprints, take only memories.”

— Rysa Walker

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.

— Donald Trump

We all have choices in history. Some are more important than others.

— Bill Shorten