Best World History Proverbs
235 World History quotes by 197 unique authors
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In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.…
— N.D. Wilson
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Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any…
— Michael Chabon
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein…
— Michael Chabon
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TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below…
— Stephen Sondheim
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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort…
— Cormac McCarthy
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing.…
— Saul Bellow
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In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
— Josh Billings
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In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and…
— Carl Jung
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Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of…
— John Ashbery
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What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and…
— Carter G. Woodson
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You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history…
— Bill Maher
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But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed.…
— Lauren Oliver
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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
— Cory Doctorow
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I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in…
— Martin Scorsese
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The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country…
— Gore Vidal
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My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was…
— Stephenie Meyer
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
— James A. Baldwin
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No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This…
— Hilary Mantel
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The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
— Herbert Hoover
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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