History Quotes · Page 97

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

— Krist Novoselic

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

— Alexander the Great

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

— Anonymous

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

— Robert the Bruce

The most extraordinary political statement put to music in history is Marvin Gayes What's Going On.

— Ron Dellums

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“Westerns are American history brought to life. Those fuckers were badasses, Callie,” he told me with a smirk. “Plus, John Wayne’s the…

— Nicole Jacquelyn

When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was…

— Margaret MacMillan

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the…

— Pentti Linkola

I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by…

— Ernest Cline

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create…

— Michael Morpurgo

“And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? Maybe the last four hundred years, out of four…

— Rebecca Makkai

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and…

— H. G. Wells

“Today's youth cannot escape the shadow of racism that has been passed down organically from parents and others who cling to a…

— Thomas Norman DeWolf

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

“The further Fascism receded into history and the fewer visible fascists there were on display, the more self-proclaimed anti-fascists needed fascism to…

— Douglas Murray

The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that…

— Hugo Chavez

“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

If you want to demonise the Mughals, please base it on some research and make us understand why; why they were the…

— Kabir Khan

“Every language glimmers with sparks of earlier ones. These sparks - a word, a place-name — are residual traces of languages spoken…

— Margalit Fox

“Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.”

— T.F. Hodge

“Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history”

— Owl City

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

— LaMelo Ball

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

— Oliver Stone

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

— Felix Frankfurter

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

— Brendan I. Koerner

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.

— Mary McAleese

I loved some classes - math, history, that's pretty much it. I didn't love physical activities.

— Nikola Jokic

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

— Nick Saban

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

— Rick Perlstein

“Yesterday was history, today is challenging, and tomorrow will be destination”

— Kaw Moo

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

— Karl Marx

“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.”

— Patrick White

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

— Ariel Gore

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

— Enoch Powell

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

— Gary Vaynerchuk