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I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman. — Philippa Gregory

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

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

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

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. — Igor Sikorsky

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

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

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

I'm convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!"17 — Bob Ward

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

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history. — Stasi Eldredge

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ... — Franz Kafka

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

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. — Ani DiFranco

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

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

The long historian of my country's woes. — Homer

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

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

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

Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba — Joaquin R. Larriba

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

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. — Kenneth Roberts

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp

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

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

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft

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

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history. — Ernst Zundel

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

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

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

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

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

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. — George Papandreou

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history. — Gary Weiss

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

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. — George Eliot

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. — David McCullough

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

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

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

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems. — Will Eisner

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

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten. — Robert Longo

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 turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. — Jessie Burton

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 Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman

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

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

'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

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries. — Alan Furst

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

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

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

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

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage

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

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

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

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

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

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

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 almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites

Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera — Emma Chase

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

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

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

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

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 lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language."
I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White

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

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. — Joe Biden

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history. — T.D. Jakes

We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman. — Amber Garibay

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

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. — Nikita Khrushchev

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

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

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