History Quotes · Page 221

“The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.”

— Tit Elingtin

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

— Oliver Stone

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

— Harrison Barnes

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

— Alan Furst

Happy Black History Month! Despite setbacks and stereotypes, I'm proud of my roots and history.

— Anonymous

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

— Thomas Jefferson

I really wanted to go Russia. I'm really interested in Russian history, so I'd like to go and put a face to…

— Mia Goth

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case.…

— Norman Davies

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first…

— Karl Marx

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere…

— Colin Firth

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

— Sasheer Zamata

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

— Jules Michelet

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back…

— Dan Brown

The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single…

— Edward Gibbon

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if…

— Howard Norman

There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do…

— David Grinspoon

Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I…

— Rose Namajunas

The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its…

— Mary Robinson

“History, of course, makes a president big news and the assassination of one more so. However, I see men assassinated around me…

— Charles Bukowski

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating…

— Edward Shorter

Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.

— Todd Young

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

— Pablo Picasso

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it.

— Bettany Hughes

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

— Steven Levy

As a historian, I always think you know what a moment was 20 years later.

— David Olusoga

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

— Robert Tew

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

— David Ben-Gurion

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. That's history right there.

— Dwyane Wade

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

“Christ is the ultimate example of how God enters the messiness of history to save his people.”

— Peter Enns

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

— Elie Wiesel

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

— Artie Lange

Knowledge owns the past and future, as long as we've the information we've power over the future.

— Jeremy Limn

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

— Puneet Issar