History's Quotes

#1. Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Derek Walcott

#2. Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

Martin Jacques

#3. No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

Wendell Berry

#4. What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Lord Byron

#5. This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

Larry Kramer

#6. The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

Kathryn Harrison

#7. If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

Steve Erickson

#8. That the story of Atlantis - much beloved by psychics, UFO spotters, and conspiracy theorists - should have sprung from one of history's greatest minds struck me, to put it lightly, as a little odd. It was like hearing that

Mark Adams

#9. Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#10. Not only was he one of history's greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln was one of history's most devoted readers. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes of Lincoln, "Books became his academy, his college. The printed word united his mind with the great minds of generations past.

Pat Williams

#11. Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Tony Perrottet

#12. It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

Kevin D. Williamson

#13. Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Jill Lepore

#14. A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

J. C. Watts

#16. In Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Frank X Walker helps restore to public memory one of history's greatest jockeys. Isaac Murphy's story has universal significance but it is very much a Kentucky story, of which all Kentuckians should be proud.

Gurney Norman

#17. I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

Miranda Richmond Mouillot

#18. The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Cal Thomas

#19. history's greatest liquidator of Jews, the thick-witted Heinrich Himmler, was a chicken farmer.

William Styron

#20. Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Dan Simmons

#21. For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

Armstrong Williams

#22. History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

Steve Wick

#23. History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Jill Lepore

#24. It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Mardy Grothe

#25. Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe - with charity - that there is still room for Hope.

Umberto Eco

#26. My history's not very good, but did David win?

Andy Gray

#27. The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

#28. Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#29. We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Dick Cheney

#30. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Dan Brown

#31. From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

Woodrow Wilson

#32. I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.

Kay Kendall

#33. History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

Ken Akamatsu

#34. Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. "What use," he replied, "is a newborn baby?

Mary Roach

#35. History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable.

D.B.C. Pierre

#36. Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History's third dimension is always fiction

Hermann Hesse

#37. That one of history's greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Ross King

#38. One of history's most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

John Carey

#39. Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them.

Jean Hegland

#40. These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.

Erica Jong

#41. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

#42. History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Michael P. Naughton

#43. Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Ray Comfort

#44. This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

Tom Robbins

#45. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

#46. the ability for the same reality to vary drastically between different people was probably the root cause for some of history's greatest wars. If everyone on Earth experienced reality in the same way, there would be very little to disagree about. But

Jeremy Robinson

#47. Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter

Condoleezza Rice

#48. The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.2 Who

Yuval Noah Harari

#49. Guilt is the cause of more marauders
than history's most obscene disauders

E. E. Cummings

#50. Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them.

Harper Lee

#51. This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Tacitus

#52. History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.

Thomas F. Madden

#53. History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Ken Burns

#54. Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

Philippe Halsman

#55. History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

Howard Jacobson

#56. One of history's few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

Yuval Noah Harari

#57. History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

George Otis

#58. No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

Peter Kreeft

#59. In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [ ... ].

Tina Fey

#60. Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Richard Watson Gilder

#61. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating new realities ... we're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Ron Suskind

#62. People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.

Thomas Pynchon

#63. Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#64. History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

Courtney M. Privett

#65. It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Philip Roth

#66. T's one of history's many valuable lessons: the foot soldiers tend to be the casualties in any conflict, not the generals.

Mark Mills

#67. History's peddler, chapman, drummer, canvasser, commercial traveler, hawker, and packman may be gone from our roadways. But their indomitable spirit and unflagging optimism, along with an understanding of human nature, will endure in each of us who choose to follow their lead.

Ronald Solberg

#68. Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

Sara Gruen

#69. The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx
xxx
The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia ...

James K. Morrow

#70. History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Orson Scott Card

#71. History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Christopher Bond

#72. It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

Andrew Sullivan

#73. I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.

Benjamin Graham

#74. At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling.

Joseph Turow

#75. History's just one darn thing after another.

Henry Ford

#76. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

Niall Ferguson

#77. History's a bitch when you're in the middle of it.

Jay Asher

#78. Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Michael Johns

#79. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased

Alena Graedon

#80. History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.

Condoleezza Rice

#81. And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

Robert Fisk

#82. I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw ...

Alex Haley

#83. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Christopher Caldwell

#84. The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

Tom Robbins

#85. Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny
While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

Jeffrey Lewis

#86. My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

Cory Booker

#87. The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

Linda Chavez

#88. Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

Steve Vai

#89. History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#90. What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

Alanis Morissette

#91. This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#92. Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#93. History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.

Richelle Mead

#94. Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of willful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls.

Steven Erikson

#95. Journalism is merely history's first draft.

Geoffrey Ward

#96. There were history's gifts to my family-and if the resources of that grocer, the fruits of those riots, the possibilities of that culture, and the privileges of that skin tone had been extended to others, how many more would now live a life of fulfillment, in a beautiful house high on a hill?

Malcolm Gladwell

#97. History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

Steve Vai

#98. History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Michael P. Naughton

#99. One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out.

Stephen R. Prothero

#100. On history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendour never to be seen again.

W. Macqueen-Pope