History Quotes · Page 197

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

— Pete Carroll

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

— Agnes Repplier

“It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Shall I go down in history as a death bringer or a privy cleaner?”

— Paul Dale

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

— John Hagelin

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

— Antonio Tabucchi

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

— Hippolyte Taine

“History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of…

— Will Slatyer

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP,…

— Bobby Knight

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is…

— Henry Ford

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

— Albert Einstein

If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be…

— Osama bin Laden

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean…

— Jim Dine

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being…

— Dirk Benedict

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

— J. H. Plumb

The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is…

— Sharon Kay Penman

The United States stands on the foundation of generations of servicemen and women who gave their lives to defend their country. Their…

— Tommy Tuberville

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly,…

— Ruby Bridges

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special…

— Jay L. Garfield

People always said during the Monday Night Wars that the only way we were able to compete was due to a large…

— Eric Bischoff

By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average…

— Janet Yellen

As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel…

— Mike Berenstain

“But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.”

— Michael E. Porter

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

— Edmund Burke

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

— Bill Parcells

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

— Luc Tuymans

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

— Steven Tyler

Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.

— Henry Golding

All of you know how Pep Guardiola is as a manager... he is the best coach in history.

— Thiago Alcantara

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

— Brooke Westcott

My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

— Anonymous

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

— Nikki Sixx

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

— Shane Claiborne

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

When 'Legacies' picked up, we never really saw the history between both of the twins.

— Danielle Rose Russell