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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
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
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
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 biographiesthey 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
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
— Hugh Mackay
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
— Thomas Carlyle
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 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
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
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
— T. E. Hulme
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
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
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
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
Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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
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
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
