Dead end Quote by Dean Kamen

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

— Barack Obama

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“history only moves forward in a straight line when we learn from it. Otherwise it loops past the same mistakes over and over again.”

— Jennifer Latham

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

— Barack Obama

Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very…

— Rene Crevel

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

— Henry Adams

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain…

— Roald Dahl

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…

— Ocean Vuong

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that…

— Boris Pasternak

“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the…

— Roald Dahl

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts…

— Ridley Scott

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

— Vladimir Lenin