History Quotes · Page 147

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

“The history of our desires is the is the story of how we lose ourselves to them.”

— Tiffany Watt Smith

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

— Kate Morton

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

— Henry David Thoreau

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

— Josef Joffe

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

— Karl Marx

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

— Peter Saunders

“History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account”

— Dan Brown

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

— Idries Shah

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history…

— Charlie Cox

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

— Emile M. Cioran

“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his…

— Lamar Waldron

My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I.

— Anonymous

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy…

— New York Times April 19 1865

“Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.”

— Idries Shah

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued…

— S. E. Cupp

“We’re at a crossroads in human history. The digital age has unearthed unprecedented access to information and connection, but it has also…

— Sol Luckman

“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics…

— Haruki Murakami

I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's…

— Donald Trump

“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Apalachicola is an historic coastal town with many old homes of distinction and a small center of town that is invaded by…

— M.W.Gordon

“It is one of the great examples,” as Friedrich Meinecke, the eminent German historian, said, “of the singular and incalculable power of…

— William L. Shirer

“dealing with our past is not making it blank like a shaken Etch A Sketch®, erasing all traces of history and its…

— Ramon Presson

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

— Marcus Garvey

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

I am very research-driven, especially when it comes to my body.

— Kadeena Cox

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

— Max von Sydow

“...what are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?”

— Victor Pelevin

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

— Richard Dawkins

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

— Paul Ricoeur

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

— Ernest Renan

Messi is incredible and his history in football is marvellous.

— Roberto Carlos

The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be.

— Tamlyn Tomita

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.”

— Richard Wright

“Geography is history in place, history is geography in time”

— Élisée Reclus

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

— Steven Heighton

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

— Pramila Jayapal

History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know.

— Kiera Cass