Events Quote by Lee Simonson

“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act…

— Diane Ravitch

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories…

— Lucy Powell

“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events…

— Margaret Atwood

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and…

— Marsha P. Johnson

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

— Mason Cooley

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

— Martin O'Malley