Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history? — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“this, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter,” Reagan said. “He already likes you. I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget… — André Gide Copy Share Image
“Danäe believed not a wisp or whiff of the forerunner’s history, whose fame was incanted in his name, Andracos Dranias, and his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Grace Lee Boggs was both product and producer of an improbable history. “I grew up in New York as a first generation… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
