History Quotes · Page 88

“The police have a long history of abducting people.”

— Steven Magee

“Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.”

— Rachel Harris

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

— Antoine Rivarol

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

— Benjamin Butler

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

— Karl Marx

“But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.”

— Anonymous

If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to…

— Edward Gibbon

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of…

— Matt Mullenweg

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different…

— Errol Morris

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

— Harold Evans

“Martha Washington was terrified of battlefields, yet she spent fully half of the American Revolution with her husband George, a courageous act…

— Steven L. Harrison

“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian,…

— Thomas Pynchon

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary…

— Erik Larson

“I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an…

— Golda Meir

“A history of nightlife!--what an interesting concept. A history of a people, told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals,…

— David Byrne

My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the…

— Orhan Pamuk

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making…

— Major Owens

I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for…

— Pooja Bhatt

“And he would say, “Y’all come when you can,” which was of no substantial pith or import, but then he would add,…

— Jill Conner Brown

Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.…

— Chase Twichell

“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree…

— Frank Zappa

“It is God’s decree which by itself completely determines the course of history;”

— Anonymous

Historys shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is hell.

— Japanese Manga

Happy Black History Month everyone. I challenge you blacks to change how other races view us.

— Anonymous

We know Manchester United's history and the fact the club is known for winning trophies.

— Jesse Lingard

“The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.”

— Amir Alexander

Access to accurate information means very little in the face of strong convictions...

— John Michael Greer

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

— Roger Ver

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

— Edward Hirsch

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

— Anatole France

“If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.”

— James Lingard

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

— Aberjhani

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

— Cole Hamels

“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.”

— Michael Kroft

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

— Nick Hornby