History Quotes · Page 85

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

I know about making history because I did it when I became the very first Undisputed Champion.

— Chris Jericho

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

— Mitch McConnell

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

— Paul Krugman

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

— Anatole France

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I…

— Dorothy Parker

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull…

— Katy Perry

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we…

— Rush Limbaugh

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history…

— Le Corbusier

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human…

— Michael Novak

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement…

— George Santayana

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even…

— Andrzej Wajda

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less…

— Hans Sloane

“When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape…

— Dick Pirozzolo

“If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well.…

— Patrick N. Allitt

“Something dangerous is beginning: I am coming late to my own self. I made an appointment with my thoughts- the thoughts were…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is…

— Sarah Bakewell

“My building was constructed in 1896, and the utilities reflect an odd design that has been jerry-rigged further with each renovation. If…

— Neil Shubin

“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

— Felicia Day

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

— Colum McCann

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

— Octavia Spencer

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

— Bernard Williams

Yesterday was history, tomorrow's a mystery, and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.

— Anonymous

“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history”

— Peter Cunningham

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

— Evita Peron

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

— Carl Jung

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

— William O. Douglas

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

— Voltaire

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

— Ken Ham

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

— Terry Eagleton

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

— Douglas Adams

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

— Malcolm X

I'm going to give everything I have got to make history with PSG.

— Kylian Mbappe