History Quotes · Page 224

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

— Norman Mailer

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

— Frederick Busch

Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.

— Gary Bettman

“History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.”

— Dan Brown Angels and Demons

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

— Swami Vivekananda

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

— Iphicrates

“A man who don't know history, he don't know anything.”

— Edward Johnston

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

— Alan Stern

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

— Robert Breault

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats;…

— Michael Pollan

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result…

— William Bennett

Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.

— Tamara Keith

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest…

— Meek Mill

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes…

— Amitava Kumar

When historians write the last pages of their books, and the producers of history documentaries sit down to edit the final minutes…

— David Olusoga

“I, on the other hand, am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history. I think 'I love…

— Italo Calvino

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on…

— Colson Whitehead

Barack Obama today is directing every federal agency to make sure we evaluate candidates on the level without regard to their employment…

— Rush Limbaugh

“There is inevitably a chicken-and-the-egg character to any debate as to whether economic growth produces its appropriate mental character or is produced…

— Keith Thomas

It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human…

— Ismail al-Faruqi

“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do…

— Zenkei Shibayama

“As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that…

— Henry Makow

I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history.

— Dan Abrams

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

— Terence McKenna

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.

— Gareth Southgate

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

— Gemma Ward

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

— Bill Bryson

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

— Amy Heckerling

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

— Martin O'Neill

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

— Dorothy West

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

— Nicola Sturgeon

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

— Charles Dickens

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

— Phil Mickelson

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

— James Harvey Robinson

“Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, “mind made all this,”

— Erich Auerbach

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

— David McCullough