History Quotes · Page 211

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

— Oliver Stone

“Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms”

— The Freedom to Read Statement

We want to be proud when we look back on our history when we grow old.

— Jennie

People need their history like they need air and food.

— Randall Robinson

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

— Prince Charles

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

— Milton Friedman

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

— Kengo Kuma

After our life history was shown on the silver screen and much appreciated by the audiences, I have more of a responsibility…

— Geeta Phogat

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a…

— E. J. W. Barber

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

— Dan Brown

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,…

— Patricia Hampl

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century…

— Robert Nelson

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

— Elizabeth Bishop

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed,…

— Mike Hughes

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the…

— Aleister Crowley

Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s…

— Daniel Walker Howe

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and…

— James Robertson

When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been…

— Rosario Dawson

It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,…

— Jennifer Beals

“On present-day Earth we have the most Christ-like nation in human history, a civilization built on loving kindness and demilitarization. They are…

— Doug Ten Rose

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,…

— Edmund Burke

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important…

— Timothy B. Tyson

As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective.

— Sara Sheridan

I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.

— Mark Shields

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Sometimes history turns on that little: a single moment, a single bullet.”

— Phillip DePoy

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

— Charles Baudelaire

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

— Rebecca West

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I don't like fiction, I like reading proper history.

— Tony Pulis

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

A piece of football history. A unique coach [Sir Alex Ferguson], among the greatest of all-time.

— Roberto Mancini

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.

— Juice Newton

“Old.  Old is relative, girl.  No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.”

— Hannah Crow

“Let no one be so mad as to believe that there is anything more pleasurable than history.”

— Nicetas Choniates

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

They say people who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it.

— Susan Mallery