History Quote by Barack Obama Download Open image “Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.” — Barack Obama ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lines Moving Straight line Straight lines
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.” — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. — Martin Heidegger 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 a backlash… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
