History Quote by Keith Thompson Download Open image ““History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.”” — Keith Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.” — John Edgell Copy Share Image
“Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.” — Alan Beattie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“History is not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.” — Phil MItchell Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time . . . and those are very good odds.” — Keith Thompson 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