History Quotes · Page 111

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

— Raymond E. Feist

“I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.”

— Mark Kemp

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

— Henry M. Cist

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

— Huston Smith

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

— Martin Heidegger

“The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.”

— John Piper

I think about the history of racism in this country all the time.

— Clint Smith

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

— Honore de Balzac

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

— Tom Hooper

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

— Henry Parry Liddon

I think some of the records that were made during my career - and, well, let's say from the '60s up to…

— Porter Wagoner

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us…

— Laura Schlessinger

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be…

— David Icke

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

— Mildred Cable

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder]”

— Maria Hudgins

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;…

— David Blunkett

“Jonathan Tran, in the traditions of Paul Ricoeur and Stanley Hauerwas, has written about how God’s forgiveness and restoration of the world…

— Tiffany Eberle Kriner

“One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human…

— Thomas Sowell

“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…

— Karl R. Popper

I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in…

— Gore Vidal

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one…

— Josh Radnor

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is…

— Jacques Lacan

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

— Taryn Simon

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

— Ted Kulongoski

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

— Susan Eisenhower

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

— Jo Stafford

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

— Simone Weil

“God was never created the economy. Men found it after banished from Eden.”

— Toba Beta

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

— George Papandreou

“Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.”

— Kevin Carson

I want to make my mark in boxing history and to do this you have to fight the best.

— Dmitry Bivol

“This is an embarrassing hole. History is the most important of the literary subarts.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

— Peter Gay

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

— Rick Ross

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

— Carrie Brownstein

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

— Mae West