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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

It's happened before. It's all happened before. History is worth shit. — Larry Kramer

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

Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think! — Suzy Witten

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

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. — A. Whitney Brown

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

Mom: Why aren't you doing very well in history? Billy: Because the teacher keeps asking about things that happened before I was born! — Various

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

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit. — Hugh Howey

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

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won. — Norman Mailer

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

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right. — Freeman Dyson

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

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book. — Amit Chaudhuri

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

Sometimes I think history isn't really what happened. It's how you look at it." I — Skye Warren

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

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened. — Cynthia Ozick

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

What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together — Terry Pratchett

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

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. — Nick Saban

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

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it. — Leila Sales

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. — Meek Mill

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 isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there. — Ramon Gomez De La Serna

There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family. — Brian Cox

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible. — Allan Bloom

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

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. — Wallace Stegner

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen. — Ambeth R. Ocampo