History Quotes
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The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.
David Luiz
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In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.
Elliott Sober -
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
Steve Rushin -
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
Eugene Kennedy -
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego -
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
Thomas Carlyle -
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Monica Lewinsky
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus -
Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.
Paul Martin -
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
Ernest Cline -
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
Steven Spielberg -
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Phil Donahue -
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman -
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.
Etta James -
She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
Bel Kaufman -
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
Thomas Hardy -
Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
Steven Spielberg
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.
Nguyen Qui Duc -
History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
Will Durant -
The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.
Eric Voegelin