Bigs Quote by John Steinbeck

“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a…

— John Steinbeck

“Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.”

— Abram Gitspof

“History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that…

— Brooks Adams

“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they…

— Marc Bloch

“Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water’s edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the…

— Justin Young

“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”

— Isaac Asimov

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

— Anonymous

“It’s the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course—sometimes in major, but consistently in minor,…

— David Allen

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid…

— Anonymous

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the…

— C. V. Wedgwood

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe