History Quotes

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

History is written by the victors.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

This is the most historic moment in Supreme Court history in our lifetime, no question about it. These are justices who are going to serve for decades.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.