- Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
- Paul Simon on History
- Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
- Elizabeth Edwards on History
- He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
- Monica Lewinsky on History
- He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
- A. J. P. Taylor on History
- He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
- Lech Walesa on History
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw on History
- Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
- B. H. Liddell Hart on 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.
- Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
- Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- H. L. Mencken on History
- History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
- Gerald R. Ford on History
- History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- Anatole France on History
- History can never be covered up.
- Zhu Rongji on History
- History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
- Eldridge Cleaver on History
- History develops, art stands still.
- E. M. Forster on History
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
- Theodor Adorno on History
- History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B. C. Forbes on History
- History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
- Alan Greenspan on History
- History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
- William Morris on History
- History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
- Tim Pawlenty on History
- History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on History
- History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on History
- History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- David McCullough on History
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- George Santayana on History
- History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
- History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells on History
- History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
- Ted Koppel on History
- History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins on History
- History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on History
- History is always changing.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on History
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce on History
- History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
- Lawrence Durrell on History
- History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- Naguib Mahfouz on History
- History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon on History
- History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
- Enoch Powell on History
- History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon on History
- History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
- History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford on History
- History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
- Will Durant on History
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Lord Acton on History
- History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
- Howard Nemerov on History
- History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- History is Philosophy teaching by example.
- Thucydides on History
- History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- Johan Huizinga on History
- History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
- Rosa Luxemburg on History
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