History Quotes · Page 74

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

— Puneet Issar

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

— Nicolas Bentley

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

— Steve Yzerman

I do not want to belong to cinema history. I am a woman - I know I'm doomed anyway.

— Celine Sciamma

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

— Georges St-Pierre

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which…

— Arthur Koestler

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can…

— Cormac McCarthy

We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international…

— Barack Obama

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that…

— Usher

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be…

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

— C. Wright Mills

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

— Patricia Highsmith

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal…

— Jonah Sachs

“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of…

— Terry Eagleton

We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts…

— Daniel Fried

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of…

— Sean Quinn

I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints…

— Kenneth Fisher

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize…

— Manmohan Singh

After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the…

— Josh McDowell

Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our…

— Patricia Arquette

I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or…

— Rory Stewart

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

— Billy Sheehan

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. —Santayana”

— William L. Shirer

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

— Frida Kahlo

Belgium is such a beautiful place with so much history and charm.

— Andi Dorfman

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

— Kate Crawford

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

— Bret Easton Ellis

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

— Danielle Colby

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

— Malcolm X

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

— Harold MacMillan

I want to keep making history, keep entertaining, and keep making guys shake in their boots.

— Anthony Johnson

History is too important to be left to the historians.

— Robert Harris

I would say Mr. Peabody gives the greatest minds in history a run for the money.

— Rob Minkoff