History Quotes · Page 30

“[...] no man is free of his own history.”

— Anita Brookner

“Every age has its darkness…”

— Liz Braswell

History, a distillation of rumour.

— Thomas Carlyle

I would never lie to anyone about history.

— Philippa Gregory

“Going down in history is a dead end pursuit”

— Benny Bellamacina

I read a lot of history for fun.

— N. K. Jemisin

I will be a historical painter.

— William Allan

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

Kelly Clarkson has one of the best voices in the history of ever.

— Neil Patrick Harris

“History is a repeatable process. if it has happened before, it will happen again.”

— R.A. niles

In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.

— Dominic Cummings

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

— David Miliband

I feel like Randy Couture has helped build the history in this sport.

— Lyoto Machida

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

— David Suzuki

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

— Aristotle

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

— Noam Chomsky

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also…

— Kate Elliott

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration…

— John Barrasso

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn…

— John Malkovich

History shows us that God never forsakes us completely. He always makes a way through even the most trying times and preserves…

— Anonymous

Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.

— Donnie Wahlberg

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will…

— Benjamin Graham

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

— Garrett Hardin

“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that…

— The editors n+1

It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a…

— Femi Kuti

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself…

— Simon Van Booy

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your…

— Rickey Medlocke

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great…

— James Gleick

“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually…

— Sol Luckman

In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee…

— Jennifer Egan

“May the scribes record it.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

History is but a confused heap of facts.

— Lord Chesterfield

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

— Henry James

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

— Rosamond Lehmann

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

— Washington Irving

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm interested in history.

— Jiang Wen