History Quotes · Page 175

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

— Bertrand Russell

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

— Sarah Dessen

The South is the region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

— Lucian

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

— Graydon Carter

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

— Ernst Troeltsch

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

— Dave Grohl

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make…

— Thomas S. Monson

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

— David Harvey

“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite…

— Robert Ellsberg

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places.…

— James Ellroy

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the…

— Smokey Robinson

Baseball is a great example of the cultural ties between the United States and Cuba and a powerful reminder of the shared…

— Ben Rhodes

Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the…

— David Suzuki

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with…

— George F. Kennan

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry…

— Thomas Paine

“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So…

— Herman Bavinck

“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There…

— William Golding

True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was…

— Marina Warner

“I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand…

— Emil M. Cioran

Nobody in history has won all the titles I've won and the cruiserweight title. I'd be the only man in history. That's…

— Roy Jones Jr

“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

— John L. Flannery

“I learned that we truly love something when we research its history.”

— Alan Maiccon

“I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings”

— James Fox

You may have chemistry with her but you have history with me.

— Anonymous

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

— Ernst Zundel

“Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?”

— Donald Barthelme

The history and tradition of the Rose Bowl, if that doesn't get you excited, I don't know what will.

— Marcus Mariota

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

— Eliot Spitzer

You lucky its black history month or it would've been a lot worse. -Ronnie

— The Players Club

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

— David Herbert Donald

[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.

— Bob Stinson

“History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.”

— Jay Asher

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -Albert Einstein”

— Barbara Post-Askin

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

— David Blaine

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

— Gary North

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

— Steven Moffat