History Quotes · Page 139

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

— Roland Joffe

“... to say we would repeat history was unfair when that history was unknown to us.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

— Juvenal

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

— James W. Loewen

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

— R. C. Sproul

My Jet Setters with me, My fans are the most loyal ever in history

— Diggy Simmons

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

— Mort Walker

“Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when…

— Antonia Fraser

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian…

— Carlos Fuentes

When I brought my medical school friends home, Dad used to tell us that we didn't know anything about the world. He…

— Holly Branson

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and…

— Mia Goth

We have good history in Virginia... and we have history that's not good and I don't think we can shy away from…

— Ralph Northam

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers,…

— Woody Allen

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call…

— Camille Paglia

“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release…

— Shannon L. Alder

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has…

— Baron de Montesquieu

It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is…

— Glenn Greenwald

“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the…

— Michael Meade

“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over…

— Franz Kafka

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall…

— Winston S. Churchill

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that…

— Frederick Douglass

I realized my family was famous because I was looking in my history book and I saw my grandfather.

— Sky Blu

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

— Harry S Truman

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

— Melissa Leong

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

— Peter Ustinov

I love the experience and history that comes with selecting and enjoying a great bottle of wine.

— Cynthia Bailey

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

— Claude Lanzmann

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

— Thomas Jefferson

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

— Barbara Tuchman

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

— David Douglass

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

— Richard Ebeling

I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.

— Ashley Zukerman

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

— Rodney Stark

To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.

— Angus Young

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

— Mark Twain