History Quotes · Page 155

Appreciate what you have while you still have it because one day you won't.

— Robert Tew

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

“History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.”

— Lisa Scottoline

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”

— James Joyce

“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.”

— Keith Jenkins

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a…

— Oprah Winfrey

I always say that countries that keep women in the backseat will always end up on the wrong side of history.

— Manal al-Sharif

Life happens once for us, so let's use it beautifully, and make all it's beauties and hardship, a history.

— Anonymous

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more…

— Ellen Goodman

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

— Samuel Johnson

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the…

— Yanar Mohammed

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America…

— Robert Kennedy

Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into…

— Amanda Foreman

“I tried to put the displacement between parenthesis, to put a last period in a long sentence of the sadness of history,…

— Mourid Barghouti

“Studentdom, he felt, must pass its own Examinations and define its own Commencement--a slow, most painful process, made the more anguishing by…

— John Barth

I think choosing Steve Bannon as a chief strategist this is a stunning, historic decision for Donald Trump in a bad way.…

— David Corn

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where…

— Lorna Luft

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

— Nancy Dubuc

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Sean Spicer gives press briefings like someone is going through his browser history while he watches.

— Hasan Minhaj

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

I find the macabre fascinating; it's all over history.

— John 5

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

— Denis Healey

“In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.”

— Vladimir Odoevsky

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

— Gregg Easterbrook

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

— Karl Marx

The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.

— Marine Le Pen

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

— Will Durant

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

— Brie Bella

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

— Alan Cohen

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

— Hermann Graf Keyserling