History Quotes · Page 105

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

— Ridley Scott

“... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”

— David Malouf

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

— Mike Huckabee

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

In the history of humanity, there's never been a country like America.

— Ted Cruz

“Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history.”

— kevin powers

Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

— Joshua Greenberg

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

— Joseph Alleine

My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned…

— Vicki Lawrence

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its…

— Susan Jacoby

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts…

— Vasyl Lomachenko

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established…

— Eugen Kogon

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does…

— F. M. Powicke

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and…

— Louise Jameson

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,…

— Michael Haneke

“What would it mean for us to come to terms with the knowledge that civilization, our whole mode of development and culture,…

— John Sanbonmatsu

No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…

— Michael Parenti

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and…

— George R. R. Martin

“In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa,…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Even though you've been over the person you were once in love with, you feel like you don't need them anymore, but…

— Habeebah(Kanoorbee

“New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and…

— Bill Maher

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his…

— Joseph Heller

“You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem”

— Nick Bantock

I am not like most fighters. I want to be on the list of the greatest, best boxers in history.

— Vasyl Lomachenko

A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

— Barack Obama

I don't want to think much about my injury in Australia. That phase is history.

— Prithvi Shaw

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

— Jiang Wen

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

— Leonardo Drew

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

— Epicurus

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

— Margaret MacMillan

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

— Mickey Mantle

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

— Paul Robeson

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

— Crane Brinton

“Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.”

— Henning Mankell

Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

— Roxane Gay

“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.”

— Peggy Ullman Bell

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

— A. J. P. Taylor