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All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. — N. T. Wright

History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved. — Max Vos

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience. — Nicky Gumbel

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous. — Ben Elton

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one. — Brook Tesla

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

Give it enough time, brother, and gossip's history. — Anonymous

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin. — Kevin DeYoung

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity. — Joel Hunter

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. — Thuy Trang

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. — Eric Hoffer

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history. — Russell D. Moore

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

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored. — Shane Carruth

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history. — Chris Dietzel

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. — Herbert Croly

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny. — Michelle Obama

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] — Eugene H. Peterson

Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming. — John Piper

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. — Thomas Carlyle

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. — Anthony Liccione

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. — Donald Creighton

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

History is the same thing over and over again. — Woody Allen

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. — Conrad Black

I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history. — J.C. Ryle

I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner. — Hazel Gaynor

History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. — Tony Brooks

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world. — Auliq Ice

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich

The beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it. — Marie Corelli

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president. — Mahathir Mohamad

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

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else. — Bob Ainsworth

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history. — Oliver

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. — Kara Swisher

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson

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

The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me! — Simon Bolivar

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused — Terry Pratchett

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. — Auliq Ice

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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

History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future. — Runoko Rashidi

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything. — Pippa Evans

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

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton

I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it. — Robert Jackson Bennett

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

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — Robert Penn Warren

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion. — Jose Andres

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel

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

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me. — Akeem Ayers

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. — Stebby Julionatan

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with. — Angela Flournoy

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross. — Cris Judd

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward. — Mike Jay

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. — Jennifer Gilmore

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. — Jean Rhys

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong. — Richelle Mead

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

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it. — Elsa Schiaparelli

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. — Carlos Santana

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

We might have been a free and great people together. — Thomas Jefferson

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. — George Vecsey

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. — Wendell Berry

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

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. — Ralph Davis

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy