Top 100 Quotes About The Course Of History
#1. Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
Robin McKinley
#2. Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
M. Night Shyamalan
#3. I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
Frank Luntz
#4. This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.
Pope Francis
#5. A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
Deepak Chopra
#7. We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
#8. The power of belief alone could change the course of history.
Ted Dekker
#9. "Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.
Peter Drucker
#10. That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
Barack Obama
#11. Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
Arthur Henderson
#12. In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.
Aldous Huxley
#13. It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.
Ron Paul
#14. It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.
Frank Herbert
#15. The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
Eric Voegelin
#16. In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.
Michael Dobbs
#17. Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.
Fela Durotoye
#18. We can and we must build the political power to change the course of history - our survival depends on it.
Wenonah Hauter
#19. Overnight the digital age had changed the course of history for our company. Everything that we thought was in our control no longer was. But within a year we had invested in social media and digital experts. Now Starbucks is the number one brand on Facebook.
Howard Schultz
#20. The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#21. In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
Seth Berkley
#23. Biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female.
Simone De Beauvoir
#24. I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#25. Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Stefan Zweig
#26. He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more ... well, pleasant.
Mary Balogh
#27. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.
Mary Roach
#28. In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.
Gordon Brown
#29. I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.
Rich Mullins
#30. At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie
#31. The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
Goldwin Smith
#33. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.
Wangari Maathai
#34. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#35. With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.
Chuck D
#36. One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions over centuries.
Timothy Venning
#37. It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
Emile Durkheim
#38. Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
Edith Hamilton
#39. Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
#40. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
Jim Butcher
#41. We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
George W. Bush
#42. Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history
Karl Marx
#43. Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.
John Robbins
#44. Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
Carrie Fisher
#45. Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
Daisaku Ikeda
#46. Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.
Meir Soloveichik
#47. There is no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
Anonymous
#48. There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty - the power of ideas.
Ayn Rand
#49. Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.
Scott Walker
#50. Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.
Julie B. Beck
#52. Scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
Virginia Woolf
#53. We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.
Christina Baldwin
#54. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig Von Mises
#55. But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.
Sally Gardner
#56. Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.
Stanley Wolpert
#57. Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.
James B. Jordan
#58. We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
Adolf Von Harnack
#59. A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
Yitzhak Shamir
#60. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
Adolf Hitler
#62. We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.
James Frey
#63. After years of feeling like a misfit, I've realized that the world is full of other misfits, all of us identifying with Hobbits - - the little guys whom no one else respects. And who quietly end up changing the course of history.
Tess Gerritsen
#64. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.
Jodi Picoult
#65. An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.
Susan Abulhawa
#67. They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...
Franz Kafka
#68. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.
Teresa Mummert
#69. However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
#70. My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history.
Rachel Roy
#71. One. Word.
NO.
No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.
Shonda Rhimes
#72. The course of history can be changed but not halted.
Paul Robeson
#73. The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
Peter Kropotkin
#74. Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
Bernie Sanders
#75. Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
Seth Lloyd
#76. I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail.
Tim Rice
#77. Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
Arundhati Roy
#78. I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
David Christian
#79. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
Henry David Thoreau
#80. Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.
Zach Braff
#81. We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.
Georgy Zhukov
#82. Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
Eamon Duffy
#83. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
Tom Stoppard
#84. Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).
Donald Davidson
#85. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
Henry David Thoreau
#86. The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.
Michael Scott
#87. A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.
George Mikes
#88. Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
Anthony Daniels
#89. History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
#90. The course of George St. Leger Grenfell's life was a continuing act of violence against the sanctities of Victorian life, and especially against its inmost essence, the family. And indeed, the large Grenfell family was an overpowering aggregation, even by the ample Victorian standard.
Stephen Z. Starr
#91. The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
Terry Jones
#92. I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.
Dani Shapiro
#93. If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
Henri Poincare
#94. It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
Peter Ackroyd
#95. Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
Joe Baca
#96. My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.
Alexander Vassiliev
#97. Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold
#98. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman
#99. I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
Hussein Chalayan
#100. The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II
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