History Quotes - Page 9

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

History is a science, no more and no less.

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Time is my greatest enemy.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

Let's give the historians something to write about

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Any time gone by was better.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!