History Quote by Margaret MacMillan Download Open image “I do tend to look at individuals and whether they do or do not matter in history.” — Margaret MacMillan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Look Matter Tend Whether
I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like,… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you? — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as… — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“There are only two perfectly useless things in the world,” he quipped. “One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and… — Margaret MacMillan 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
