History Quotes · Page 57

I'm sick of making bloody history.

— Patrick Rafter

“Memory is a tough place. You were there.”

— Claudia Rankine

I've always been fascinated by history.

— Ruben Fleischer

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

— Simon Schama

Belmont ... American Pharoah

— Thor

I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.

— Cesaro

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

— Eric Wolf

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

— Phillip Noyce

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

— Jean Cocteau

There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

— David M. Louie

“One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge”

— Shashi Tharoor

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

— Kevin Costner

“It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.”

— Abe Lincoln

“History is the past that is definitely, hopefully not coming back.”

— Boris Zubry

If we are suppose to forget about the past, why do we have to take history class anyway?

— Anonymous

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the…

— Tyler Cowen

It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it…

— Zephyr Teachout

In America, you don't even have proper holidays. It's really one of the most prosperous slave societies in history. People work their…

— Pankaj Mishra

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

— James Clapper

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with…

— Virginia Foxx

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

— W. Kamau Bell

I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back…

— David Boies

You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of…

— Charlie Munger

“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we…

— Suzy Kassem

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of…

— Karl Marx

“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed,…

— Seth Garfield

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and…

— Stephanie Coontz

Yes, I love going to fittings and talking about the history of a costume. For 'Versailles,' a play set in 1919, the…

— Gwilym Lee

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.'…

— Mike Tyson

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

— Warren Buffett

We cannot hide from history.

— Raphael Warnock

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

— Mao Zedong

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

— Penelope Lively

The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history

— James Kip Finch

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

— Anonymous

[News is] a first rough draft of history.

— Phil Graham

I'm a big lover of history.

— Taylor Russell