History Quote by Steve Berry Download Open image ““I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”” — Steve Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.” — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
“It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance of history makes us slander our own times, wrote Gustave Flaubert.” — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“My goal is to make history come alive. My fictitious characters are woven into the tapestry of actual history.” — C.B. Huesing Copy Share Image
“All this is the flimsiest speculation, which is God’s gift to historical fictioneers.” — William T. Vollmann 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 shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world.” — Judith Geary Copy Share Image
“But the past determines who we are, and it has led to this sartling future.” — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
“What a difference from words on a page, or images on a video screen. Surrounding him was one of the oldest fortresses in England,… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“He’d read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them. — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“It's true that the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Steve Berry 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