History Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

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

— Barack Obama

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

— Adam Curtis

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

— Alan Bean

History goes in cycles.

— Matteo Salvini

History does not always repeat itself.

— Anonymous

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

— Julian Jaynes

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

— Barack Obama

History only repeats itself when it has nothing to say.

— Tasneem Hameed

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History is no more than memories refreshed.

— Peter Charles Newman

History does not unfold: it piles up.

— Robert Adams