All things Quote by Han Suyin

Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our…

— Herbert Butterfield

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

— Penelope Lively

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

— Robin Hobb

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

— Orson Bean

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

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

— Julian Jaynes

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

— Rita Dove

Define weird in a world where almost everything's possible and you have no concrete point of origin.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich