History Quotes

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

History doesn't have a curfew.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Some men are born posthumously.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.