History Quotes
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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.
F. M. Powicke -
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it's supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They're really rooted in something.
Natalie Maines
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
W. G. Sebald -
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.
Cory Booker -
I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.
James Comey -
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
Lion Feuchtwanger -
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
David Gross -
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
David Gross
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This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
William Kidd -
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
Christine Keeler -
Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.
David Hallberg -
Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
Bill Buford -
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict -
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
C. V. Wedgwood
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History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.
Al Davis -
Comrade Tassinari was right in stating that for a revolution to be great, for it to make a deep impression on the life of the people and on history, it must be a social revolution.
Benito Mussolini -
'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.
Rithvik Dhanjani -
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
Jess Walter -
The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
Clayton M. Christensen -
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein
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History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.
M. L. Stedman -
'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
Christine Quinn -
What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
Edith Schaeffer -
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.
Andrei Tarkovsky