History Quote by Gaby Hoffmann Download Open image “History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.” — Gaby Hoffmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Moment Present Present moment Time
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint. — David Christian Copy Share Image
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there. — Ramon Gomez de la Serna Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was… — Gaby Hoffmann 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
