History Quotes · Page 223

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

— Martin Cruz Smith

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

— Sun Ra

“Sungguh-sungguh, sifat gadis tua, menyanjung-nyanjung kenangan lama.”

— Sulastin Sutrisno

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

— Penelope Lively

“To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

— Joseph Jackson

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net.…

— Samantha Shannon

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to…

— Larry Flynt

Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America.

— Mikie Sherrill

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me…

— Francesco Totti

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust

I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my…

— Sarah Millican

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would…

— Michael Klare

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

— Terry Hands

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack,…

— Rick Perlstein

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da…

— Jim Starlin

We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being…

— Christina Baldwin

“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We,…

— Tacitus

When you approach the second half of your life, you start to unconsciously consider what you're passing on. As a writer, that's…

— Mary Gaitskill

Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds…

— Linda Ronstadt

“Baudelaire" When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having no…

— Delmore Schwartz

“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le…

— Anonymous

“History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.”

— Toba Beta

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

— Helen Dunmore

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is Mystery, But today is a gift .that why it's called present…

— Unwritten_Angels

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

— Henry A. Kissinger

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

— Harold S. Kushner

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

— Lucy Larcom

“Park had the sort of face you painted because you didn't want history to forget it.”

— Rainbow Rowell

You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.

— Donald Trump

“Once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.”

— Sophocles

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

— Oscar Wilde

Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

— Mother Teresa

“This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Unelected bureaucrats at the IRS have a history of weaponizing their power to go after conservatives.

— Ronny Jackson

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

— Karl Marx

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

— Karl Marx