I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The reason you think history is white is because you've been lied to. — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think that history lived, and a life lived, is as much to do with the birdsong you heard that morning… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do]. — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now. — Helmut Lang Copy Share Image
At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis,… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small… — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues. — TS Eliot Copy Share Image
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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