Avoided Quote by Konrad Adenauer Download Open image “History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” — Konrad Adenauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoided History
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint. — David Christian Copy Share Image
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there. — Ramon Gomez de la Serna Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the… — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
Thoughts and pictures come to my mind... thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth… — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
