Quotes About Rewriting History

#1. Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Ed Koch

#2. Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book
reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

Ann Coulter

#3. [He] looked at her as though she'd lost her mind, and [she] had her first experience of men rewriting history. I did no such thing [he said]

Jude Deveraux

#4. I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

Walter Ciszek

#5. True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. He wanted to talk about the strange passion that catches hold of a man by the scruff of his neck and transports him to a realm beyond the fear of death.

Yukio Mishima

#7. History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.

Claude Bowers

#8. I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

John Muir

#9. There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good.
And when she was "bad",
Her Papa loved her anyway.

Kristen McKee

#10. He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.

Anne Fortier

#11. Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!

Kristen McKee

#12. Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

Confucius

#14. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That's how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.

Steve Jobs

#15. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

#16. The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

#17. 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

Pamela Sargent

#18. I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

Carine Roitfeld

#19. (both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)

David Mitchell

#20. What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. He couldn't live in a world with her and not have her in his life. Nope. Not happening.
"You're mine," he growled against her swollen lips. The words came out guttural as he held back the urge to slam into her.

Katie Reus

#22. Let me be the one To do what is done.

Robert Frost

#23. You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you.

Joel Osteen

#24. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Dan Brown

#25. A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

Peter Camejo

#26. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

#27. We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Pratibha Patil

#28. No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for Before Coffee.

Cherise Sinclair

#29. But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Patrick DeWitt

#30. That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Tim Tharp

#31. History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#32. Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!

Kristen McKee

#33. Don't be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.

Sandra Dallas

#35. The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Richard Handler

#36. Men trust an ordinary man because they trust themselves. But men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

G.K. Chesterton

#37. That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

Oliver Harris

#38. I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

Genevieve Gorder

#39. I hate that I feel scared in a place where I should feel safe.

Kiersten White