Accomplices Quote by Charles S. Maier

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

— Donald Creighton

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

— Gretel Ehrlich

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the…

— Paul Auster

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer