History Quotes - Page 66

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

History is and should be a science.

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

History is an accumulation of error.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.