History Quotes · Page 77

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

— Clarence H. Burns

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

— Helen Westley

My browser's recent history is your facebook, your photos, and your twitter.

— Anonymous

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

— Howard Schultz

The only history that matters is the history we know.

— Ezra Pound

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

— Harold Wilson

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

— Anonymous

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

— Rand Paul

“History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.”

— Victor Van Ballenberghe

Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to…

— Henry Grunwald

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to…

— Edward Gibbon

“Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) declared that orthodox Christianity was based upon two testaments, three creeds, four gospels, and the first five centuries of…

— Alister E. McGrath

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

— Herbert Read

I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.

— Greil Marcus

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China…

— Terry Eagleton

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they…

— Ted Cruz

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern…

— Hannah Arendt

“Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external,…

— Novalis

“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” – Mark Twain The history of…

— Mike Hockney

“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All of Man’s works, all his cities, all his empires, all his monuments will one day crumble to dust. Even the houses…

— Susanna Clarke

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you…

— Assata Shakur

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history…

— Anonymous

We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have…

— Arundhati Roy

“Even ruins are teachers, if we listen to what fell.”

— Lawrence Nault

“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past?”

— Max Brooks

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.

— Phil Hellmuth

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

— Tupac Shakur

I was the youngest world champion in history when I won the WSOP in 1989 at age 24.

— Phil Hellmuth

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

— Frances Moore Lappé

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

— Peter Ustinov

“was not crazy.  He did not have a history of insanity in his family.  He had no excessive mental”

— Brian Harmon

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

“examining the fortifications to-day with BISMARCK, I lent”

— Various

“Jeff: There's a lot of history in this city... Peanut: Translated: Old. As. Shit. ”

— Jeff Dunham

Pakistani nation and Pak Army have written a new history of bravery and valor against terrorism.

— Shehbaz Sharif

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

— John Morton

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

— Ed Dwight

The past is history, looking towards the future! Always chasing my sweet dreams!

— Anonymous