History Quotes

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

I want to go down in history.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

History is always changing.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.