History Quotes · Page 157

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

“Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!”

— George MacDonald Fraser

I think bald guys have been notoriously cast as villains throughout history.

— Anthony Carrigan

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

— Edward Gibbon

The idea that Democrats have a lock on the female vote is contradicted by history.

— S.E. Cupp

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

— Yael Stone

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I believe that history will record Inspiration4 as a pivotal moment in space exploration, as another important step towards humanity's next great…

— Jared Isaacman

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not…

— Richard M. Nixon

“And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

— Stephen Colbert

“Ghurman was a wise Jinni who was more than three hundred years old, and had a long history with Humans.”

— Ibraheem Abbas

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by…

— Ori Gersht

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as…

— Arundhati Roy

“This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men…

— Erik Larson

I did loved my ex so much, but through time I had to let go, she bacame one of my past stories.…

— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi

“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible…

— George Orwell

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the…

— Adam Hochschild

“Finally, we will also discuss how the failure of nations today is heavily influenced by their institutional histories, how much policy advice…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question…

— Ken Liu

“Who was this mysterious founding member of an order that would grow in such prominence in history and legend? Why was this…

— James Rollins

Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and…

— Lee Isaac Chung

“History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme…

— Philip Freeman

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

— Adam Gopnik

“Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!”

— Katherine Givens

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

— Vince Flynn

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I had quite the history with cocks accidentally falling into my mouth.”

— Nicole Castle

Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

— Enver Aysever

“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”

— Leila Sales

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

— Maya Lin

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

— Kate Atkinson

Obviously, I like doing crazy stuff given my history of skateboarding.

— Darby Allin

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

— Joan Holmes

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

— Joan Rivers

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

— Daniel Cormier

Once I've retired, I will come to London for fun. I want to go to the history museums.

— Peng Shuai

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook