History Quote by Donald Creighton Download Open image “History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.” — Donald Creighton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. — Donald Creighton Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity. — Don Rittner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary. — Donald Creighton Copy Share Image
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. — Donald Creighton 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