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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
— Shashi Tharoor
History is made by those who say no.
— Jon Savage
Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
— Pete Hamill
I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.
— Kelly Starling Lyons
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
Good women are no fun ... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
— Mae West
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
— Oscar Wilde
We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hairbreadth escape and bloodcurdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history.
— Mark Twain
So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.
— Junius Williams
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
— Adrienne Rich
In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.
— Ronald Kessler
We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
— John Diefenbaker
History was about to be made. Or, if not actually made, then torn apart.
— Trevor Baxendale
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
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
— Gerda Lerner
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
— Henry Louis Gates
Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.
— Jon Lord
As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.
— Michael Adam Hamilton
The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,
— Samantha Power
History made when mindset changed.
— Toba Beta
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
— George Papandreou
One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz
— Joe Abercrombie
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
— Barry Humphries
No one who was normal ever made history.
— James Arthur Ray
We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.
— Nigel Farage
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
— John Crowe Ransom
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
— Joseph Bruchac
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.
— Johnny Depp
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
— Kate Morton
I am what time, circumstance, and history have made of me, certainly, but i am also much more than that. So are we all.
— James Baldwin
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
Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history
— Sunday Adelaja
History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.
— Isaac Asimov
Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
— Kris Waldherr
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
— Chesty Puller
Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.
— John Green
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists.
They see all the things that don't yet. — Natasha Tsakos
They see all the things that don't yet. — Natasha Tsakos
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
— New York Times
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.
— Jol Dantzig
History is rarely made by reasonable men.
— Terry Goodkind
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
— James Baldwin
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
— John Terraine
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
— Christopher Moore
History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.
— Walter Benjamin
In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
— Ron Chernow
History is ours, and it is made by the people.
— Salvador Allende
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
— Billy Joel
Want to change history? Luke made a stab at humor.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
In the future history will be made only by us.
— George W. Bush
It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
— Neel Burton
... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
History is made only by those people who know the times and seasons.
— Sunday Adelaja
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
— Joseph Stalin
I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.
— Yoweri Museveni
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
— Monica Lewinsky