History Quotes · Page 185

“Making history was so much better than writing it.”

— Kate Quinn

Nobody needs to talk about the history of Manchester United because everybody knows it.

— Lothar Matthaus

“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..”

— Louis de Bernières

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

— Wilbur Smith

How about that? That's the first time in the history of the school.

— John Calipari

History doesn't give credence for resorting to violence to have your voice heard.

— Lecrae

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

— Ariel Durant

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

— Abraham Lincoln

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines…

— Robert Shea

“There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history—the most fascinating subject…

— Richard Norton Smith

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the…

— Bob Marley

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that…

— Ken Follett

“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find…

— Silvia Federici

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean…

— Calvin Coolidge

As a U.S. History major, there is something very cool about being in cities, and walking the streets of Philadelphia or Boston…

— J. J. Redick

I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think…

— Zach Braff

“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic…

— William L. Shirer

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide…

— Pope John Paul II

Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a…

— Kristanna Loken

“[...] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history…

— Gavin Extence

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

— Robert Roswell Palmer

We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

— W. Kamau Bell

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

— Andrew Luck

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

— Thomas Carlyle

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

— Bernard Malamud

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

— David McCullough

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

— John Andrew Rice

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

— George Aiken

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

— Max Beerbohm

“With you... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.”

— Melissa Petreschock

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

— Ernest Klein

Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich.

— John Popper

The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality.

— John Trudell

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

— Andy Dunn

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

— Jordan Peterson