History Quotes · Page 99

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

— Anonymous

“Because of her, I would literally save history. And I would also regret it for the rest of my life.”

— David A. Goodman

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

— Ovid

I hope to be remembered one day as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, fighter in MMA history.

— Patricio Freire

The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters.

— Dana White

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

— Penelope Lively

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

— Naomi Klein

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths…

— G. R. Elton

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever…

— Henry David Thoreau

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing…

— Janet Yellen

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch…

— Richard Bach

Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up…

— Travis Fimmel

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A…

— Henry Steele Commager

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

“Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they have…

— Anonymous

There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you…

— Laura Belem

“At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of…

— Mike Jay

“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles…

— David Hume

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they…

— Amanda Lindhout

What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and…

— John Mortimer Smith

“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most…

— Michael Oakeshott

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the…

— Niall Ferguson

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

— Nicky Oppenheimer

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

— Jodi Picoult

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

— Anonymous

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

— Hal Price

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

— Georges Braque

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

— Vladimir Lenin

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

— Isaac Asimov

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.

— Helmut Kohl

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

— Rolf Hochhuth

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

— Willa Cather

“History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.”

— arundhati roy

“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.”

— Anonymous

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

— Lee Greenwood

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

— Amit Chaudhuri