History Is Always Written By The Winners Quotes

#1. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Dan Brown

#2. To them it was a holy crusade; not just a right, but a veritable duty, no less than an obeisance to God's commandment.

C.W. Lovatt

#3. Over nine whole acres while a huge, horrendous Vulture puddles forever with hooked beak In his liver and entrails teeming with raw pain. It burrows deep below the breastbone, feeding And foraging without respite, for the gnawed-at Gut and gutstrings keep renewing.

Virgil

#4. I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

Audrey Hepburn

#5. McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Robert Downey Jr.

#6. I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

Kelly Rowland

#7. The purpose of life is to endure tragedy as well as comedy in hopes of sharing a story with a happy ending.

Jes Fuhrmann

#8. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him and the way the public is with him. He's a mega-star over in Europe.

Cole Hauser

#10. History is always written by winners.

Amish Tripathi

#11. I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#12. Baby, I don't feel pain. Ever. (Talon)
Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine)
It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon)
But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. He realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.

Milan Kundera

#14. Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Patti Smith

#15. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Richard Benyo