History Quote by Mitch Rowland Download Open image ““History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.”” — Mitch Rowland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Truth Writing
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.” — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.” — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
“The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.” — Aldo Schiavone Copy Share Image
“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their… — Na'ama Yehuda Copy Share Image
“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“The future is shaped by young people foolish enough to believe they can topple a mountain. And yet, when we stand among the rubble,… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“No one is ever beyond redemption, if they choose to walk that path.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“After you’ve found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting… — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge… — Mitch Rowland 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