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But what truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection? — Lynda Barry

Then Sister Aquinata abandoned the nonviolent methods and produced a rolling pin from somewhere. — Mary Robinette Kowal

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — A.S. Byatt

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them. — William G. Tapply

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories. — John De Ruiter

History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories. — A.H. Septimius

I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance. — Lionel Shriver

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front. — Kate Atkinson

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write. — Michel De Montaigne

He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause. — R.A. Salvatore

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories. — Shimon Attie

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

Children will end up a world away, whether you want them to or not - unaware of the havoc being wreaked upon their histories back home. — Jan Ellison

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. — Thomas Carlyle

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale. — Linda Gordon

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. — Alix Kates Shulman

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. — Evan D.G. Fraser

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire

Unloved women have no biographies
they have histories — F Scott Fitzgerald

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

site's lead writer, dug into the histories — Ashlee Vance

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them. — Alison Weir

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social. — William Bolitho

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader. — John Gray

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames. — Pierce Brown

Throughout all my histories, I found no one I loved more than you ... no one. — Rebecca Maizel

These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed — J.J. Ratter

Food ethics are so complex because food is bound to both taste buds and taste, to individual biographies and social histories. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know. — Ali Smith

I have become very good at clearing histories. — David Levithan

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd. — Erik Larson

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy. — Ben Elliot

Human beings disappear; their histories remain. — Bernard Stiegler

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to. — Corey Ann Haydu

Our histories, our novels, our poems, our plays - they are all in this one book. — Simon Winchester

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves. — T. E. Hulme

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? — B.F. Skinner

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, — Mia Couto

Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories. — C.G. Hassack

Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent. — Anthony Doerr

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make. — Charles Baxter

Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams

Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered. — Leah Bobet

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation. — Gael Garcia Bernal

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ... — Michael Lewis

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship. — Brian Acton

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. — Michel De Montaigne

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories. — Susanna Moore

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there. — Joachim Peiper

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. — Steven C. Rockefeller

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. — Charlton Heston

Study prophecies when they are become histories. — Thomas Browne

Not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. — Jacqueline Carey

Every day / a few billion histories fail to occur. — Lawrence Raab

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories. — Malcolm Gladwell

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. — Lewis B. Smedes

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett

Histories are like novels in that they set out to provide more or less comprehensive accounts of social systems. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. — Shimon Attie

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong. — Kate Atkinson

Histories are instruments of oppression. — Catherynne M Valente

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options. — Ellen Goodman

Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories. — Mary Harron

I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories? — Nicola Yoon

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole

It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one. — Jodi Picoult

Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside. — Terry Tempest Williams

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. — Zadie Smith

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard. — John Trudell

When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets. — Carmen Posadas

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit. — Sonia Choquette

There is no history, only histories. — Karl Popper

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

He says unloved women have no biographies - they have histories." Anthony laughed again. "Surely — F Scott Fitzgerald

He wished he'd been able to think of some rousing last words. "Bugger you all" was not like to earn him much of a place in the histories. — George R R Martin

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson

The humble histories of hearts cannot be brushed aside forever by the great events of nations. — Milan Kundera

Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place - bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us. — Shawna Yang Ryan

Histories don't make men; men make histories. — Ogwo David Emenike

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified. — Toba Beta

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. — Alexander Pope

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. — Gustavo Gutierrez

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari

Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection. — James C. Scott

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented — Roger Casement

Wild things are made from human histories. — Helen Macdonald

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our shadows are our histories. We drag them everywhere. — Anthony Doerr

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein