History Quotes · Page 215

I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

— Barbara Sukowa

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

— Theodor Mommsen

“And on a difference of three minutes, all of history changes.”

— Brent Weeks

Yesturday is history. tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. that's why it's called the present.

— Anonymous

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

— Paul Eldridge

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

— Bill Duke

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self.

— Robert Tew

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything…

— Aldous Huxley

“-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history &…

— Richard Flanagan

“Despite how painful it might have been, the chapter that we wrote today is never the conclusion that we are forced to…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits…

— David Jeremiah

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of…

— Elizabeth Montagu

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history,…

— Nina Berberova

I mean, for sure, from my history, I have an extreme fondness for 2D. I think it feels very hand-crafted, and you…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the…

— James Madison

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you…

— June Jordan

“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no…

— L. Michael White

“The Black homosexual is hard pressed to gain audience among his heterosexual brothers; even if he is more talented, he is inhibited…

— Essex Hemphill

The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of…

— John Marshall Harlan II

“There's one important question humanity has asked throughout history that no longer needs to be asked! Are there other intelligent beings out…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as…

— Colman Domingo

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

— Dean Devlin

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If I had all the qualities that the newspapers are talking about, I'd be the best player in history.

— Krzysztof Piatek

“Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.”

— John Gray

As history has shown, I don't think the UFC is in the business of doing favors for other people.

— Aljamain Sterling

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

— Alan Shepard

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight.

— Juan Manuel Marquez

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

— Ethan Suplee

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

— Gregory Maguire

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

— James Gleick

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

— Sarah Dessen

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

— Lee Konitz

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

— Doris Lessing

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

— Adrienne Rich

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

— Anthony Anderson