History Quotes · Page 224

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

— Vince Flynn

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

— Joan Rivers

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

— Daniel Cormier

Obviously, I like doing crazy stuff given my history of skateboarding.

— Darby Allin

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

— Joan Holmes

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

— Edward Gibbon

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in…

— Leanda de Lisle

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

— George R. R. Martin

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide…

— Alicia Garza

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together.…

— Kofi Annan

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It…

— Ira Sachs

If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin,…

— Yance Ford

Tennis has given me so many opportunities, and I feel very lucky to have achieved whatever I have, especially coming from a…

— Ana Ivanovic

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Not just Negroponte, who doesn't like to read, but even Birkerts, who thinks that history is ending, underestimates the instability of society…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression…

— Noam Chomsky

“Congressional oversight: When a congressional representative forgets to do something. (Historical note: this phrase once had another meaning, but since 9/11, years…

— Tom Engelhardt

“ Don't. I understand. I knew going into this that a story about us was also going to be a story about…

— S.C. Stephens

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay…

— Vladimir Putin

“Here we are on top of the world. We have arrived at this peak to stay there forever. There is, of course,…

— Graham Allison

The idea that Democrats have a lock on the female vote is contradicted by history.

— S.E. Cupp

I think bald guys have been notoriously cast as villains throughout history.

— Anthony Carrigan

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

— Charlemagne Palestine

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

— Adam Gopnik

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

— Yael Stone

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

— Antonia Fraser

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.”

— Patrick Lane

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

— Bruce Catton

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

— Henry Adams

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

— Bill Gates

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

— Andy Andrews

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

— Massimo Vignelli

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

— James W. Loewen