Books Quote by Michael Howard Download Open image “History is what we read, write and think about the past.” — Michael Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books History Past Thinking Time Writing
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga 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 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
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. — David McCullough 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
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
