History Quote by Jodi Picoult Download Open image ““Yes, it’s historically accurate. But still, it’s a toy. Why this slice of the past?”” — Jodi Picoult ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Time
“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons. But the past resists that. It holds too much… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.” — Tom Morrison Copy Share Image
“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.” — Paula Wall Copy Share Image
“None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with history. It's the one thing we have to make up for… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Recent history takes a while to set. People really don’t know what just happened. They only figure it out later.” — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I like it… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let me guess," Eric says, "You never meant for it to happen." "Hell, yes, I did. I've wanted her since you two started dating."… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love feeling loved. I don't love knowing that I will always come in second place. I love the fact that at least sometimes when I am in my home, I'm not alone. I don't love the fact that it's not always. I love not having to answer to him. I don't love that he doesn't answer to me. I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place. She stood with her hands on her hips, stoically accepting the absence of old Boston Celtics coasters and the tangle of fishing poles, the old dartboard from a Scots pub, the toolbox and downhill skis, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
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 will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
