History Quotes · Page 234

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

— Lord Acton

“what I’m saying is, before I hand over my sexual history, I want to have a test-run.”

— Andrea Smith

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”

— Robert Bonville

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

Yesterday was a history tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that's why we call it as present

— Samar Singh

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

— Marco Rubio

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

— Judith Miller

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to…

— Miriam Makeba

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all…

— Charles Lamb

“Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't…

— Alex London

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

— Ehud Olmert

In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari…

— Gauri Khan

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the…

— Nancy Horan

In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and…

— Haile Selassie

I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most…

— Jerry Heller

If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to…

— Herbert Hoover

The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…

— Rose Macaulay

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now…

— Anonymous

Here's a history lesson: when men took power of their lands, all of a sudden, women became a prize. In order for…

— Kate Hudson

“The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like…

— James Bradley

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism,…

— Carroll Quigley

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE”

— Gordon G. Chang

The history of human achievement is, indeed,a record of what man can do by himself.

— Senoraroy

“It's easy t write a history. All the eyewitnesses are dead. - Ljupka Cvrtanova”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.”

— Sambhav Ratnakar

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

— Giles Deacon

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

— Paul Kagame

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

— Will Durant

“Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.”

— Toba Beta

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.

— David Grann

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

— Claudette Colvin

“... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.”

— L.M. Montgomery

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

“We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

— Guy Lawson