History Quote by James S.A. Corey

“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”

— James S.A. Corey

“History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.”

— kurt vonnegut

“I addressed the scribes directing, speaking over his head. "History is merely a list of surprises," I said. "It can only prepare us to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

— Dwight Lyman Moody

“That both things could be true at once—my disbelief as well as my certainty—was the unification of the ancient and the future parts of…

— Cheryl Strayed

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

— Voltaire

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everyone says that reading is a good thing, but Ava had started to wonder. People look at you with suspicion if they see you…

— Stephanie Powell Watts

“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Interpreting Bible prophecy using current events has grown immensely in the last few generations.  Many Christian bestsellers come from the ranks of prophecy books…

— Stan Newton