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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
— Philippa Gregory
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
— Charles Baudelaire
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
— Douglas Coupland
History is the memory of a nation
— Thomas Sowell
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
— John Grisham
There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.
— Joel Hunter
This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know?
— Sarah Dessen
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
— John Hope Franklin
History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
— Jane Haddam
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?
— Richard Corliss
It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions.
— Stephen King
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.
— Marian Seldes
The clock in the wireless shack said 12:45 A.M. when the Titanic sent the first SOS call in history.
— Walter Lord
I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
— Carlton Cuse
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
— Dorothy Parker
We might have been a free and great people together.
— Thomas Jefferson
To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
— Niall Ferguson
We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
— Anthony Liccione
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
— Thomas S. Monson
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
— James Howard Kunstler
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
— Bob Ainsworth
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
I guess love laughs at history a little.
— Sebastian Barry
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
— Simon Hoggart
History is a light that illuminates the past,and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi
an interaction is not a relationship; rather, a relationship is the remembered history of previous interactions.
— Kevin J. O'Connor
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
— Bertrand Russell
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
— Benjamin Graham
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
— Nathan Wolfe
I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
— Sara Sheridan
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
— Olivia D'Abo
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
— Johann Baptist Metz
You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.
— Angela Flournoy
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The normal make a living. The deranged make history.
— Christopher Titus
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
— Barbara Kruger
I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.
— Edward St. Aubyn
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
— Penelope Lively
I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.
— Wesley Morris
Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage
I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
— Alan Furst
It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
— Idries Shah
History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
— Steve Berry
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
— Charles Spurgeon
Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
— Mitt Romney
Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.
— Cleopatra
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.
— Johnny Depp
History is as much an art as a science.
— Ernest Renan
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
— George Papandreou
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
— Jeanette Winterson
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
— Eleanor Clift
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.
— Merry Clayton
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
— Jason E. Royle
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
No woman in the history of humanity has ever found a comfortable way of dressing herself after sex.
— Kay Hadashi
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
