History Quote by China Miéville Download Open image ““History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.”” — China Miéville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.” — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.” — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.” — Raymond L. Atkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning.” — F. Thomas Vincent Copy Share Image
“Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.” — James C. Malin Copy Share Image
“Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.” — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with history. It's the one thing we have to make up for… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
