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All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. — Ted Koppel

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up. — Paul Rusesabagina

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. — Jacques Chirac

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

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

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R R Martin

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all. — John F. Kennedy

History is as Old as My Grandfather — Adolf Hitler

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

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility. — Jack Kent Cooke

Call no man happy until he is dead. — Solon

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? — Alastair Reynolds

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history. — Rabindranath Tagore

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Pyotr Kropotkin

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. — Edward Hoagland

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

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. — Agnes Varda

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

History is not history unless it is the truth. — Abraham Lincoln

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

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors. — Perry DeAngelis

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway. — Steven Magee

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away ... it is fun to be alive at this point in history. — Anders Sandberg

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it. — Felix Frankfurter

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold. — Jason E. Royle

'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 privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. — Eleanor Clift

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history. — Etgar Keret

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

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

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle

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

The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'. — Cleopatra

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. — Allan Nevins

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

Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon

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

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

History is as much an art as a science. — Ernest Renan

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

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew. — Christopher Caldwell

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler

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

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

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 was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging. — Edward St. Aubyn

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. — Richard Eyre

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

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

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

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

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

The only history that matters is the history we know. — Ezra Pound

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

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

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. — Gary Wolf

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. — Tom Osborne

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. — Nikita Khrushchev

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

The Thames is liquid history. — John Burns

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia. — Najib Razak

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

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

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. — Antonio Tabucchi

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering." — Johann Baptist Metz

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another. — Thomas C. Foster

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth! — Donna Tartt

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

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

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation. — Erik Larson

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history. — Jim Cooper