History Quotes · Page 113

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

— Seth Klarman

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

— Anatole Broyard

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

— Thomas Jefferson

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

— Mason Cooley

“i have learnt a lot from diversity and i will always make sure the history does not repeat itself”

— augelicht

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

— Ava DuVernay

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

— Frank Rich

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

— Robin Sharma

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal…

— Ken Kesey

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That night, genocide had begun that would last until the end of the war. November 9, 1938; would go down in history,…

— Roberta Kagan

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

— Renee Fleming

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

— Rene Girard

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my…

— Erik Larson

“... momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother”

— June Jordan

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

— John Henry Wigmore

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down…

— Robert Lepage

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you…

— Stefan Zweig

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,…

— John Perkins

Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South…

— Sam Harris

People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point…

— Vijay Prashad

“There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users…

— Sebastian Marincolo

The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud…

— Al Sharpton

A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics…

— L. Neil Smith

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

— Benito Mussolini

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

— Walter Wink

History dictates that winning three consecutive championships is very difficult.

— Giorgio Chiellini

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“I loved history, any kind of history, and even better if it was hidden, secret, or underground.”

— April White

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

Celtic is the right place: the history, the fans - it's a place I want to score more goals.

— Timothy Weah

“George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.”

— Helen Thomas

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

— Billy Blanks

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

— William H. Prescott

“Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy.”

— Nelson DeMille

“History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”

— Timothy Snyder

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

— Frederick Lenz

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

— Robert M. Fresco

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

— Eoin Colfer