History Quotes · Page 82

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

— Noah Feldman

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

— David M. Shoup

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history…

— Corazon Aquino

“Kehormatan dapat diperoleh baik di luar maupun di dalam dinding tembok PBB,”

— Cindy Adams

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements.

— Jonathan Frakes

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli

“Beauty by mistake' -- the final phase in the history of beauty.”

— milan kundera

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,…

— Wilfred Owen

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in…

— Herbert Croly

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with…

— F. M. Powicke

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation's history, and yet the VA has not done…

— Ryan Zinke

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

— John McCain

I actually have a history of doing quite a few period dramas, but I think I really specifically wanted to do the…

— Phoebe Dynevor

“Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't…

— Charles Krauthammer

New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh…

— Edward Heath

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and…

— Thomas Paine

“A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans."…

— Isman H. Suryaman

A lot of people have been saying I am obsessed with the "making history" thing. But it's what pushes me, it's what…

— James DeGale

“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery…

— Foucault Michel

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place…

— Rebecca Solnit

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

— Tom Berenger

“..It's our history, some of it's painful, some of it's beautiful, but it's who we are!”

— Malcom Cooper

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

— Thomas Starr King

To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy

— R. A. Salvatore

“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty.”

— Eduardo Galeano

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

— Adam Curtis

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

— Mao Zedong

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

— Bruce Catton

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

— Michel Hazanavicius

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

— Robert Tew

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

— Agatha Christie

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

— Winston Churchill

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

— George Nethercutt

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

— Rick Warren