History Quotes
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
