History Quote by Ted Koppel Download Open image ““History often provides a lens through which irony comes into focus.”” — Ted Koppel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature can provide… — Beatriz Sarlo Copy Share Image
“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.” — Mark O'Connell Copy Share Image
“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s in charge there, nobody has responsibility, nor can anybody require that they do work.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“smaller companies with lean profit margins are simply not inclined to spend a great deal on cybersecurity.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“has to be connected to the company’s billing department, which in turn needs to be connected to whatever department actually conveys electricity to the… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“I think that within six months, if things weren’t straightened out adequately to have something besides anarchy, somebody’s going to show up on your… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“the extreme vulnerability of SCADA systems to cyber sabotage was first demonstrated, and dramatically so, during the administration of George W. Bush.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“The August 2003 blackout was a wake-up call for both industry and government regulators.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“consumer deals directly only with the local company that delivers the electricity on that final leg.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“We remain largely oblivious to the potential catastrophe of a well-targeted cyberattack.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“the Internet is also giving rise to “filter bubbles” that decrease users’ exposure to conflicting viewpoints and reinforce their own ideological frames.” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)” — Ted Koppel 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
