History Quotes · Page 164

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

— Robert Anton Wilson

The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.

— David Eisenhower

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

— ben elton

In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

— Catherine Jinks

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

— Jeffrey Deitch

“There is no better time in history to be an idiot than right now.”

— A.J. Jacobs

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

— Sophie Hunger

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

— John Henrik Clarke

“Social progress and changes of historical period take place in proportion to the advance of women toward liberty, and social decline occurs…

— Charles Fourier

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

— Colin Powell

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

— Andre Gide

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and…

— H. G. Wells

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of…

— Tom Stoppard

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma”

— Henry James

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as…

— Edsger Dijkstra

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when…

— Fred D'Aguiar

Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be…

— Henry A. Kissinger

All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points…

— Geoffrey Elton

“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-…

— Steven Lomazow

That was when I noticed how close this guy was getting. He put his hands on either side of me. Wait when…

— Jade

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic…

— Cory Booker

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the…

— Taylor Caldwell

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

— Al Gore

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

— Michael Beschloss

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

— Julian Assange

“This is what I most humbly feel, If you do not love me, history will!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.

— Patty Jenkins

“I was the first comic in world history, so they told me, to pick fights with children.”

— W C Fields

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

— Terence McKenna

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

— Brenton Thwaites

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

— Dean Kamen

“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

— Craig Brown

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

— Simon Singh

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

— David Hume

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis