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There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. — George H. W. Bush

This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history. — E. M. Forster

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace

We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hairbreadth escape and bloodcurdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history. — Mark Twain

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. — Condoleezza Rice

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is. — Shelby Foote

That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. 3 — Stephen King

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl

A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography. — Aporva Kala

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. — Paul Harris

After all, history proved that eventually, everyone leaves me. Why would you be any different?
Now I know that you were.
Are. — Leisa Rayven

In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11. — Ronald Kessler

History is one damn thing after another. — H.A.L. Fisher

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door! — Leonardo Da Vinci

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. — Alan Shepard

The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? — Niall Ferguson

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. — Geraldine Jewsbury

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come. — Alain De Botton

I hate American History after 1850. — Emma Iadanza

Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible. — Andrei Cherny

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war. — Shigeru Yoshida

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. — Jeffrey Deitch

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history. — Pirjo Honkasalo

There were several key American scientists that favorably reported on Nazi eugenics after visiting Hitler's Germany in order to provide it cover. — A.E. Samaan

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting? — H.G.Wells

Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it. — Adrien Rouquette

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace. — Archibald Wavell

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether. — Jim Butcher

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it. — Zeeshan Ahmed

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man. — Barry Hannah

Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history — Adam Gopnik

How few women have any history after the age of thirty! — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way. — Ed Asner

After the collection of facts, the search for causes. — Hippolyte Taine

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. — Wilfred Owen

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. — Ken Follett

After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD. — Mark Fuhrman

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution. — Bill Lambrecht

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. — Albert Camus

London is - after Athens and Rome - the third most influential city in history. — Boris Johnson

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau

Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

History's lessons don't expire after a few decades. — Thomas F. Madden

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! — Ted Anthony Roberts

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after. — Marjane Satrapi

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history. — Walter Kasper

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault

I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won. — Wilson Rawls

Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. — Raleigh Trevelyan

We all came from our mothers' bellies. We all have hope in our veins. We don't want history to forget us, but the dead look after the afterwards. — Henri Cole

one can no longer distinguish between history and reality after the absinthe goes in the punch. — Beatriz Williams

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. — Joseph Stalin

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves — Darius Bolton

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. — Caitlin Flanagan

History after all is the true poetry. — Thomas Carlyle

tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking. — Douglas Bond

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead. — Mark R. Jones

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. — Jane Yolen

Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. — Steven Johnson

How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history. — Mark Hart

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

History is never surprising after it happens. — Robert A. Heinlein

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

God was never created the economy.
Men found it after banished from Eden. — Toba Beta

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone. — George W. Bush

No woman in the history of humanity has ever found a comfortable way of dressing herself after sex. — Kay Hadashi

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. — David Christian

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another — Alan Bennett

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. — Reggie Jackson

History's just one darn thing after another. — Henry Ford

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn. — David Aaron Kessler

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself ... — A.S. Byatt

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? — Roland Joffe

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. — Susan Griffin

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant. — Max Lucado

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did! — Stephen Colbert

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley