Happened Quote by Cynthia Ozick Download Open image “History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.” — Cynthia Ozick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happened History Judgment
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance. — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened? — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
