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Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history. — Brenda Cothern

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. — Washington Irving

AS, TWO weeks later, James Bond awoke in his room at the Hotel Splendide, some of this history passed through his mind. — Ian Fleming

Each one writes history according to his convenience. — Jose Rizal

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives. — Andrew Roberts

He was hounded by the shade of his brother, demanding terribly the price of blood... William of Malmesbury, the History of the English Kings. — Patricia Bracewell

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. — Roger Mudd

It didn't matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his own history. — Ginn Hale

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being. — Edward Schillebeeckx

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. — Lech Walesa

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks. — Sharon Kay Penman

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. — Will Durant

The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same. — Gwyn Alfred Williams

[...] no man is free of his own history. — Anita Brookner

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred De Vigny

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out. — Jessie Burton

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. — George Bernard Shaw

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second? — Deepak Chopra

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term. — Scott Walker

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway

He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road. — Ari Berk

Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful" - Abu Bak's warfare rules, to his army — Firas Alkhateeb

You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.
I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about. — Stephanie Kuehn

We'd never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan. — Katherine McIntyre

My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He — J.K. Rowling

His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history. — James S.A. Corey

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders. — Orson Scott Card

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. — Michael Beschloss

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

You can forget Stalin," he said, pledging his allegiance. "We're not the History Channel. — Timur Vermes

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. — Bernard Malamud

History had no lessons or rules to offer the student, it could only broaden his understanding and strengthen his critical judgment. — Carl Von Clausewitz

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God. — Adrian Rogers

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won. — Greg Proops

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history. — Frank Harris

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality. — Jules Michelet

A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

History belongs above all to the man ... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history. — Jason Miller

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history . — Jacques Ellul

This may be the only example in history of an individual financing an entire railroad of significance out of his own pocket. — Bill Dedman

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. — Washington Irving

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now. — Sarah Dessen

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent. — Bob Barr

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world. — John Gresham Machen

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. — Malcolm Forbes

I'm going to write the last chapter in his precious history. Right now. — Pittacus Lore

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts. — Henry Adams

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. — Alexander MacLaren

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short. — James Carl Nelson

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. — David Ben-Gurion

What man is, only his history tells. — Wilhelm Dilthey

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him. — Theodore Monod

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems. — Max Lucado

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posterity gives every man his true value. — Tacitus

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. — Ruth Benedict

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. — Harold Rosenberg

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol

I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.
They just did it in different ways. — Joanna Wylde

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. — Liz Farrelly

The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...

Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't. — Dolores Huerta

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush. — J. C. Watts

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people. — Steven Furtick

Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. — Hilary Mantel

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. — Henry David Thoreau

His-his-history!' he cried. 'I declare the Stone Age at an end. History will start from tomorrow! — Terry Pratchett

Not everyone is capable of sacrificing his own life. So it is, always has been and always will be. — Tadeusz Pankiewicz

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. — Romain Gary

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. — Edward Gibbon

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world. — Zinedine Zidane

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] — John Burnside

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. — Stanley Baldwin

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends. — Sharon Kay Penman

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. — Paul Reiser

Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion? — Sigmund Freud

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song. — Q-Tip

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man's library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul. — Andrew Smith

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. — Erich Fromm

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David H. Hackworth

he can't see past his own history to let us have ours. — Nicola Yoon