History Quotes · Page 237

If I can bring the UFC to Russia, I will be a fighter who has made history.

— Alexander Volkov

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

Energy deregulation will be the largest transfer of wealth in history.

— Warren Buffett

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

— Angie Everhart

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

— Mickey Spillane

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

— Robert Kiyosaki

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

— Alija Izetbegovic

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

— James Buchan

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am…

— Thomas Piketty

We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives…

— Raoul Peck

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the…

— Gary Cherone

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still,…

— Maya Angelou

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

— Dani Shapiro

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent.…

— Richard M. Nixon

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if…

— Heather Wilson

“Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae; Trotsky's eyeglasses; Gandhi's native-spun cloth,…

— William T. Vollmann

Clary glanced past him and asked, "Where's Magnus?" "He said it would be better if he didn't come. Apparently he and the…

— Cassandra Clare

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be…

— Arthur Lynch

The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Sosan is the third Zen Patriarch. Nothing much is known about him – this is as it should be, because history records…

— Osho

More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this…

— Ronald Fisher

“Lehman and Belady have studied the history of successive releases in a large operating system.[6] They find that the total number of…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

— Eli Roth

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

It has been an honour to defend the colours of a historic club like Deportivo.

— Clarence Seedorf

Bitter people are like historians they cant forget the past.

— Missyrie

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

— Joan Robinson

History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

— Helene Hanff

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

— Adolf Hitler

Not the existence of man, but the action of man sets the wheel of history of the struggle in motion

— Anonymous

“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”

— Paul A. Offit

“dull of heart had a history in God, but did not keep current in what God was doing.”

— Bill Johnson

Juventus is an historic club that only fights to win.

— Leonardo Bonucci

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

— Dorothea Dix

“History was once the future, the future will create history.”

— Daniel J. Hill

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

— Albert Camus

In order to make history, you have to win the World Cup. It's not good enough just to reach a final.

— Carlos Tevez