History Quotes · Page 136

“Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think safe is the way if you want to make history.

— Angela Yee

You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.

— Rob Liefeld

“In the history of mankind, more human beings were killed in the name of religion than for any reason,”

— Bobby Akart

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

— John Flanagan

“When history repeats itself, historians repeat themselves.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

— Anonymous

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

— Andrew McCutchen

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the…

— James Bobin

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is…

— Albert Camus

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers.…

— Amma Asante

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

— Brian Tracy

I found 'Veer Shivajian' interesting project as it showcases the life of the great Maratha warrior and takes you back in history.

— Raza Murad

“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an…

— Golda Meir

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary…

— Erik Larson

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share…

— Federica Mogherini

“Don’t you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don’t know. Really, I’m not sure how…

— Victor Gischler

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories…

— John Dyer Baizley

Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call…

— Ma Yansong

“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this…

— Ernest Gellner

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

— George C. Wolfe

My administration will be the most transparent in history

— Barack Obama

I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.

— The Iron Sheik

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

— Leonard Cohen

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

— Anonymous

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.

— James Bobin

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

— Oscar Wilde

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

— Richard Dawkins

History is not written in the interests of morality.

— Agnes Repplier

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

— Adrian Rogers

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

— Milan Kundera

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

— Mae West

“Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.”

— Michael Dwinnell