History Quote by Woodrow Wilson Download Open image “It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” — Woodrow Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lightning Regret Writing Writing history
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people. — Ruel Copy Share Image
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth,… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the past, I've always written about my experiences, and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I am at the point of my life where I am realizing that I cannot write about the same shit forever. I just can't.… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the… — Woodrow Wilson 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 will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
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 community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share