History Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image ““Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?”” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).” — Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Copy Share Image
“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.” — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied… — Paul Cartledge Copy Share Image
“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.” — Joseph Schumpeter 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
“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie 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
