History Quotes · Page 208

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

— John Lahr

Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things.

— Jonah Goldberg

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

— Anonymous

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women

— Clarice Stasz Stoll

“God is responding with miracles that won’t make sense but will make history. Read that again!”

— Dr. Angela L. Hood

“Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

— William C. Oates

Kastellorizo is where Europe ends and Asia begins, and its history is fascinating.

— Carol Drinkwater

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing…

— Susan Sarandon

“one thread runs through the history of mankind, namely, the operation of the sovereign, merciful, and almighty will of God, to save…

— Herman Bavinck

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks…

— Antony Beevor

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for…

— Robert Payne

Diouf was one of the best players in the whole history of Senegal. He did a lot for the national team, and…

— Sadio Mane

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can…

— Robert Musil

“The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning.”

— Salman Rushdie

“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing…

— Niall Williams

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history…

— Adam Beach

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an…

— Michiko Kakutani

“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its…

— Barbora Jiřincová

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the…

— Criss Jami

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of…

— Bernie Sanders

“The great historian of religion Martin Marty once said every religion serves two functions: First, it is a message of personal salvation…

— Nancy Pearcey

“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and…

— Terence McKenna

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

— Tony Kushner

“You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

— Jane Haddam

An Ibra-Messi tandem would have been marvellous, but history decided otherwise.

— Sergio Busquets

Usually, historically, nothing good comes out of relationships becoming more complicated!

— Jeremy Podeswa

I'm the only player in history to have played in three consecutive World Cup finals.

— Cafu

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

— Helen Keller

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

— Alexis Sanchez

Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

— Abi Morgan

I'm a huge history buff, so I just love to research, and I'm also slightly lazy.

— Misha Green

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

— Hilary Mantel

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

— Tony Judt

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

— Robin Williams

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

— Hope Edelman

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

— Jack Nicklaus