History Quotes · Page 443

We have a very good history in hockey and when I look back into my own career, I know I do have…

— P. R. Sreejesh

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe…

— Luka Modric

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to…

— Alan Taylor

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

— Gary Cherone

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan

Don't be afraid to try new things, because I just tried shot put not knowing my family history behind it, and trying…

— Michelle Carter

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,…

— Jacqueline Carey

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of…

— John Stuart Mill

“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

"Filipino" is the Spanish side of our history. The islands were named after King Felipe, so we became known as Filipinos. It's…

— Lav Diaz

I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

“HSPs tend to fill that advisor role. We are the writers, historians, philosophers, judges, artists, researchers, theologians, therapists, teachers, parents, and plain…

— Elaine N. Aron

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government…

— Marco Rubio

“Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin,…

— Julia David Levithan

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists…

— Laurie Graham

“If you're going to write histories, Tarly, you have to do the research, Archmaester Ebrose, Game of Thrones S7”

— George RR Martin

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who…

— William S. Paley

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the…

— Warren Mundine

“These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles…

— Douglas Adams

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai…

— Tony Jaa

“And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through…

— Anonymous

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar;…

— John Stuart Mill

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial…

— Scott Berkun

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I…

— Giacomo Casanova

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish…

— George Crumb

I learned more from my family - my mom and my dad always tried to keep me as educated as possible on…

— Jerami Grant

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what…

— Ruth Benedict

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps…

— Sufjan Stevens

“they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe…

— Mary R. Habeck

“I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.”

— Bauvard

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given;…

— Primo Levi

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

— Anonymous

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

— Dani Shapiro

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

— Nancy Horan

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent.…

— Richard M. Nixon