Chance Quote by Moshe Sharett

From day one, we've always gotten backlash for certain outlandish ideas that we've had and presented. That's also kind of been the driving force…

— Zacky Vengeance

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

— Lee Simonson

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories…

— Lucy Powell

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

— Bernard DeVoto

“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

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

— Colum McCann

“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

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

— Daniel Kahneman

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

— Jamaica Kincaid

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable…

— Guy Debord

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

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin