Begin Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

“History repeats itself but does not replicate itself; it moves more like the wheels of a vehicle. Every revolution brings it to a new…

— R. N. Prasher

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

— Jim Leach

“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a circular trajectory,…

— Ocean Vuong

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

— Frances Moore Lappé

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

— Anonymous

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

— Vladimir Lenin

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean

History is the gradual instant

— Anne Michaels

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

— Fernand Braudel

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

— Emilie Autumn