Divided Quote by Fernand Braudel

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

— Frank Rich

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

— Frances Moore Lappé

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

— Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by…

— George W. Bush

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

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

— Vladimir Lenin

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

— David McCullough

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Daniel Walker Howe