History Quotes · Page 201

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

— Terence McKenna

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

— Ronald Wright

“Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— Stephen King

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

— Salman Rushdie

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

— Mia Wasikowska

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.

— Leslie Mann

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

— James W. Loewen

“We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be…

— Mark Twain

Recent history shows that leaders in both parties are fanatics on the topic of immigration, and they cannot be trusted to effectively…

— Laura Ingraham

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do…

— C. S. Lewis

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

— Antony Beevor

“History, as Kennan had observed, was “the common refuge of those who find themselves helpless in the face of the present.”17”

— Gregg Herken

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing.…

— Clare Balding

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

“indeed but little is said of Him by secular historians of His time. Few and short as are the allusions to Him…

— James E. Talmage

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

“...nothing that is historical can relate itself, from its own ground, to anything messianic. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is not the…

— Walter Benjamin

“Interesting point of view is to see humankind and its history as dysfunctional humanity, from very beginnings of first cultural traits up…

— Adam Kovacevic

“The Six was everything that a book club book should be: short at two hundred pages, highbrow because it dealt with English…

— Kathy Cooperman

This club is steeped in history and I feel privileged to have become a part of that ... An immense thank you…

— Patrice Evra

“I scrolled up through the history of our text messages. Only a few bubbles above, she’d written ‘I love you, my only.…

— Rory Dunlop

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

— Chad Wolf

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

— Nelson Mandela

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

— Rolf Hochhuth

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

— Georges Braque

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

— Isaac Asimov

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

— Vladimir Lenin

In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.

— Helmut Kohl

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

— Jodi Picoult

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

— Anonymous

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

— Hal Price

“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

— George Monbiot

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

— Jake Tapper

We were the only band in history that was directed by an ass.

— Scotty Moore