History Quotes · Page 223

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

— John W. Gardner

Covid-19 has been a calamity for the U.K. It will leave a permanent stain on our country's history.

— Nick Boles

“I want your first kiss to be the best first kiss in the history of first kisses.”

— Colleen Hoover

“Whenever i have Wealthy wealth trust me i will change the history of poverty”

— Saad khan

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

— Peter Drucker

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

— Dino De Laurentiis

“Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political, and social puzzle in history.”

— Gun Gun Febrianza

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

— Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted…

— David Letterman

Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show…

— Susan B. Anthony

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

— Madison Cawthorn

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny,…

— Marcus Garvey

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I spoke to Everton, the plan, the project, the history of the club was interesting. If I didn't see ambition in…

— Ronald Koeman

Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

— Will Durant

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing…

— Philip Pullman

Nothing's new since Genesis. And so everybody in their life thinks history began when they were born. Most people's historical perspective happened…

— Rush Limbaugh

The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, has become the biggest bank failure in history. See, the problem with the savings…

— Jay Leno

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the…

— Henry Louis Gates

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our…

— Carl Jung

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks…

— Paul Rusesabagina

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!”

— George MacDonald Fraser

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?”

— Michael Duncan

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

— Gerda Lerner

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

— Aidan Chambers

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

— Luther Strange

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

— Gerard Houllier

“You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.”

— Carlos Bulosan

“I had quite the history with cocks accidentally falling into my mouth.”

— Nicole Castle

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

— Maya Lin

“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”

— Leila Sales

Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

— Enver Aysever

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!”

— Katherine Givens