History Quotes

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?