History Quote by David Malouf Download Open image ““... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”” — David Malouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The finite, to me, was a thing of beauty. There was a start and an end. Someday we'd all be history, and if I… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.” — Robert J. Devaux Copy Share Image
“If history really forever repeats itself: then, it has always been then.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.” — John Logan Copy Share Image
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.” — Toi Thomas Copy Share Image
“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.” — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
“You told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change it or… — Cora Carmack Finding It Copy Share Image
“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.” — David Malouf 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