Analysis Quote by Lucy Powell

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

“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

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

— Haile Selassie

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion.…

— Meg Rosoff

“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

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be…

— John F. Kennedy

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris