History Quotes · Page 240

“Historians pick and choose and every one of them picks and chooses the same thing.”

— Isaac Asimov

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

— Maya Angelou

I've never been that bothered by numbers; the history of cycling evolves and follows its own course.

— Eddy Merckx

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

— Anonymous

History has it that every positive motion faced a negative opposition and only the strongest survived.

— Terry Mark

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

— Jason Aldean

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

— Charles E. McKenzie

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

— Mohammed Daoud

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,…

— Jacqueline Carey

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists…

— Laurie Graham

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt.

— Trish Regan

Don't be afraid to try new things, because I just tried shot put not knowing my family history behind it, and trying…

— Michelle Carter

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

— Gary Cherone

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to…

— Alan Taylor

“All the past is a lie. All history, all memories, all of it, are just illusions. None of it is who your…

— Don Elwell

“For the study of Middle Eastern history, and at the present time one might even add of world history, some knowledge of…

— Bernard Lewis

“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the…

— Sylvia Earle

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up…

— John Thorn

'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical,…

— Daphne du Maurier

I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success…

— Evan Daugherty

Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II…

— Peter Marino

I suppose that I hope to change the history of ballet.

— Michaela DePrince

“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

— Immanuel Kant

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

— Wendy Wright

“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now”

— Colin McEvedy

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

— Henry Adams

“I was unhappy too. And until we own our history, she thought, I thought, there can be no change.”

— Chris Kraus

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

— Laurence Sterne

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

— Lech Walesa

The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic.

— William J. Clinton

All day long I keep wishing, let partition be a past now. It should only remain a part of history.

— Gulzar

“Photos are moments in the history. Reviving magical memories is weaving life with fantastic thread.”

— Indeewara Jayawardane

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

— Hugh Mackay

You grew up way too fast, now there's nothing to believe, the reruns all become my history.

— Goo Goo Dolls

“The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.”

— Denis Avey

Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

— Mary Karr