History Quote by Joseph McElroy Download Open image ““Isn't history breaking so fast that you have to anticipate it?”” — Joseph McElroy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.” — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.” — Evan Mandery 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
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“... people hasten to get their train, and Lar's humming of course at the premise that beyond this gone-to-pieces capability they will put themselves… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I see you moving and me here. Ever-moving. But sometimes moving in one place without ever leaving, yet knowing you could leave.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“... or a Buenos Aires cab's exhaust pipe? An exhaust pipe which James Mayn was once invited to screw, having asked a man on… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And I got to stop thinking there's what was and what will be, and start thinking there's a story in between.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And what is your story? someone interrupts. What did you do to end up in this endless community of minds?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Special reincarnation? he said. She sighed. Why did people want to complicate things by coming back twenty years later for a second, third chance?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I am alone, I am alone, but not lonely, not lonely for people, it seems.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel,' she wonders, 'that we fit into a large life that doesn't know us but--hold us? And that this is better… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image