History Quotes · Page 231

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

— George Bird Grinnell

History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.

— Zinedine Zidane

People tell me that I've also changed their lives making history.

— Andy Ruiz Jr

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

— Paula Abdul

It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

— Thabo Mbeki

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

— Warren Buffett

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

— Thucydides

“History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.”

— Alice Hoffman

“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity…

— Sara Sheridan

I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I…

— Bryson DeChambeau

The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does…

— Vincent Starrett

A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved…

— Gulzar

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong…

— Gail Fine

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that…

— John Oliver

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of…

— David Christian

Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only…

— Bruno Bauer

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And…

— Tim Cook

“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It…

— Alain de Botton

Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair…

— Ben Brantley

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict…

— Nick Turse

“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling,…

— James Caskey

There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that…

— Tony Judt

“Marcus had never had the opportunity to pass on his questionable genes, so he would now effectively be erased from history, with…

— Andrei Cherascu

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

— Max Lucado

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

— Honore de Balzac

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

— Robert Penn Warren

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

— Susan Howe

“Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.”

— Derek Robinson

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

— Adam Hochschild

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

— Noam Chomsky

“Time makes very little difference to the basic realities of life”

— Diana Gabaldon

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When "history" loses its "story," it becomes only an empty greeting in one voice.”

— Kay Moore

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

I wanted to be the best footballer in Belgian history. That was my goal. Not good. Not great. The best.

— Romelu Lukaku

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

— Mary Beard