The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation. — Ron Holland Copy Share Image
The Great men of history spoke the truth for what it is not how they wished it to be. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths… — G. R. Elton Copy Share Image
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Stories which have failed either to become popular folk lore or to be embalmed in old newspaper files are in great danger… — Ruby Elhult Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto?… — Nicholas Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In every house, there was always one malcontent jealous prick out to destroy everyone else just for spite. The entire history of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“• • • Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Love is the whole history of a girl's life, it is but an episode in a guy's. — Ohteen Copy Share Image
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Kerensky, yes, Kerensky – I think we have to say one of the great wets of history.” — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty." Ned Low” — Patricia Goodwin Copy Share Image
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.” — George Lynch Copy Share Image
I have met him a few times. What can I say - Maradona is one of the best players in football history. — Luka Modric Copy Share Image
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
