History Quotes
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Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
Eisaku Sato -
Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
Bernard Hopkins
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.
Anthony Greenwald -
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
Donald Trump -
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
George Eliot -
If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
Kiefer Sutherland -
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
Chalmers Johnson -
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.
Bruce Feiler
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
Jesse Ventura -
Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.
Lydia Leonard -
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.
William L. Shirer -
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
E. O. Wilson -
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!
Ann Hood -
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
Amy Chua
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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle -
There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
John Moody -
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers -
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
Nell Scovell -
They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
Chris Stein Blondie
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic -
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
Judith Butler -
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
James Buchan -
We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.
Blase J. Cupich