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Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.
— Dennis Sharpe
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
— Howard Fast
History is everything that has ever happened.
— Stephen Ambrose
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
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
— Peter L. Berger
History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
— Jared Diamond
History is not what happened but what is written down
— Kathleen McGowan
It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better.
— R.A. McCandless
A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography.
— Aporva Kala
Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
— Antony Beevor
The South is a region that history has happened to.
— Richard M. Weaver
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
— Alan Bennett
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
— Orson Welles
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
— George R R Martin
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
— Idries Shah
There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.
— Karen Joy Fowler
Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.
— Sheri S. Tepper
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.
— Smokey Robinson
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
— Ludwig Von Mises
History didn't always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.
— Wade Kelly
Nothing of importance happened today.
— King George III
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
— Paulo Coelho
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
— Doris Lessing
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
— Lewis H. Lapham
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.
— Robert Breault
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
— Paul Pierce
History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.
— Nikki Giovanni
Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.
— Jorge Luis Borges
History is not necessarily what happened but what is recorded.
— Debbie Terranova
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.
— Warren Mundine
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
— David McCullough
History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
— Peggy Noonan
That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet.
— Jennifer Egan
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
— Elias Canetti
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
— Henry L. Stimson
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
— A. Whitney Brown
Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.
— Brandon Sanderson
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
— Frederic William Maitland
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
— George Santayana
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
— Murray Walker
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
— Earnest Hooton
History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.
— Ramon Gomez De La Serna
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
What happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history ...
— Peggy Herbert
We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
— T. F. Tout
History is always entirely different to what has happened.
— Halldor Laxness
There is no history without historians." The buzz ended. "Nothing happened unless some historian said it happened.
— Harlan Hague
