History Quotes · Page 154

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don't expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.

— Anonymous

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

— Alan Furst

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

— Leo Tolstoy

“The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.”

— Tit Elingtin

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

— Oliver Stone

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

— Harrison Barnes

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of…

— Aldrich Ames

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

— Larry Kramer

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there…

— Dick Armey

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of…

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

— Joan Nestle

“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

— Patricia Highsmith

To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

“The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with…

— Cameron Conaway

No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia…

— Arthur Demarest

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who…

— Charles Kennedy

“Really? Gryffindor came from Godric’s Hollow?” “Harry, did you ever even open A History of Magic ?” “Erm,” he said, smiling for…

— J.K. Rowling

It's really important that when you come to a club, you know the history. My dream was always Real Madrid or Barcelona,…

— Rafael van der Vaart

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whoever will take the trouble of reading the book ascribed to Isaiah, will find it one of the most wild and disorderly…

— Thomas Paine

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Homo Defessus – Never before in human history has so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and…

— Giannis Delimitsos

This Black History Month, celebrate and remember diverse leaders of the past, present and future!

— Anonymous

“Menghukum Sukarno berarti menghukum seluruh pergerakan.”

— Cindy Adams

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

— Elie Wiesel

Knowledge owns the past and future, as long as we've the information we've power over the future.

— Jeremy Limn

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

— Artie Lange

“Christ is the ultimate example of how God enters the messiness of history to save his people.”

— Peter Enns

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

— Aberjhani

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

— Zach Anner

The greatest city in the history of the Earth. -Wes Mantooth

— Anchorman 2

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

— Puneet Issar

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

— David Ben-Gurion

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

Everybody was calling. I think everybody called every player in the league. That's history right there.

— Dwyane Wade

“History can be created, but recreating it can ruin its originality.”

— priyanka gera

“Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit”

— Kandathil Sebastian