Break Quote by Henry Adams

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

— Thurgood Marshall

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

— Don Rittner

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History…

— Jeanette Winterson

History does not unfold: it piles up.

— Robert Adams

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

— Goenawan Mohamad

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be…

— John F. Kennedy

“Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not…

— Thomas Pynchon

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming.

— Bill de Blasio

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

“...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

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

— Eamon Duffy