History Quotes · Page 370

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

— Anonymous

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we…

— Charlie Pierce

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

— William O. Douglas

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

— Aminatta Forna

“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the…

— Abhijit Naskar

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,…

— Douglas Coupland

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists…

— Zephyr Teachout

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of…

— Thomas Carlyle

Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas,…

— Renford Reese

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

— Ani DiFranco

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,…

— Anais Nin

I walk down the stairs and soon as I step off the last step a blast of something I can't explain hits…

— Jade

“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect…

— Richard M. Nixon

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Mor said quietly, 'Is it so bad- to be his mate? To be a part of our court, our family, tangled history…

— Sarah J. Maas

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster then any other human invention in history...with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.”

— Mitch Ratcliffe

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of…

— Jean M. Auel

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

— Shimon Attie

“Do you two have history?” “We used to friends” “Used to be?” “When I left, I never wanted to see him again”

— R.S. Burnett

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked…

— David Puttnam

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political…

— Norman Davies

I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the…

— DJ Spooky

“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

— Lauren Groff

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than…

— Walter Scott

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of…

— Anonymous

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

— Tom Turner

Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get.…

— Oscar Isaac

“So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be…

— Patience Johnson

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few…

— Voltaire

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

— Margaret Fuller

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

— Uma Thurman

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each…

— Thomas Pynchon

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

— Ai Weiwei

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our…

— Eric Garcetti

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice…

— Seamus Heaney

“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.”

— Eric Ives

I would love to one day see the rock churches in Ethiopia and learn about the history of Rastafari in the country,…

— Corinne Bailey Rae