History Quotes · Page 97

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

— Raoul Peck

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

— Zhou Enlai

“War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez

History just continues to repeat itself over and over again.

— Mike Faist

“Happy people don't make history. Happy people make children, then die.”

— Neil Hilborn

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

— Marjorie Garber

Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.

— Brian Quinn

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out…

— Peter Gay

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

— Ed Markey

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick…

— Dave McCary

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was…

— David Olusoga

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible…

— Russell Baker

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of…

— Maynard James Keenan

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.…

— James A. Garfield

How lucky we are to be able to see and hear so much of our history over the past century as it…

— Jerry Springer

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew…

— Yair Lapid

If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many…

— Alexis Ohanian

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real…

— Simone Weil

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,…

— Rand Paul

“Throughout amerika's history, people have been imprisoned because of their political beliefs and charged with criminal acts in order to justify that…

— Assata Shakur

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do.

— George W. Norris

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

— Gavin Extence

New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.

— Toyah Willcox

Never place your happiness in someone else's hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness

— Anonymous

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

— Alexander Downer

I became known as the guy who did the worst show in the history of television.

— Jerry Van Dyke

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

— Earnest Hooton

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

— Maya Angelou

“We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.”

— J.K. Rowling

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

— Lindsey Buckingham

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

— Carol Tavris

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

— F. Sionil Jose

“If the words, But you’re a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.”

— Laken Cane

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

— Mike Tyson