History Quote by Michael Dibdin Download Open image “Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.” — Michael Dibdin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Last night Lasts Night People Thinking Tvs
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein Copy Share Image
I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.” — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job. — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals. — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“I know I should be reassuring him that everything's all right, that he needn't worry, but I can't. Instead I'm talking to someone I… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“a masterly performance. Fulsome and vapid, laden with insincere warmth and hidden barbs, his introductory speech had nevertheless left no legitimate grounds for complaint.” — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
What is true for a given person in a given situation is not necessarily true for that person in a different situation, or for… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you. — Michael Dibdin 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
