History Quotes · Page 123

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

— Marianne Williamson

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

— Alister E. McGrath

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

— Linda Gray

“But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense … a”

— Dan Brown

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

— George Washington

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

— J. B. Bury

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

— MC Paul Barman

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

— Ralph Nader

I think everybody called every other player in the league. That's history right there. It hasn't been done in a long time,…

— Dwyane Wade

“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that…

— Thomas King

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His…

— Ellen G. White

Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.

— Mitt Romney

The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and…

— Karen Traviss

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you developed the traits that are specific to successful people, passion- the…

— Sunday Adelaja

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering…

— David Harewood

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more…

— Thomas Piketty

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us…

— Tessa Virtue

“During a subsequent visit, however, Chang told him that there were other books published up to about the middle of 1930 which…

— James Hilton

“The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but…

— Thomas Bernhard

We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be…

— Brigham Young

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast…

— Steven Pinker

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

— Lucian

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

— Graydon Carter

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

— Ernst Troeltsch

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

— Dave Grohl

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

— John L. Flannery

“I learned that we truly love something when we research its history.”

— Alan Maiccon

“I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings”

— James Fox

You may have chemistry with her but you have history with me.

— Anonymous

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

— Ernst Zundel

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

— Jim Mattis

“Has anyone ever in recorded history kept a box of Pepperidge Farm cookies for longer than three days?”

— David B. Feinberg

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

“and yet we're in the generation where deleting history became more important than creating history.”

— Waasay Uddin

“Decay is as inevitable as death, as nothing lives in this temporary world for eternity”

— Usama Hussain

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

— Sarah Dessen