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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
It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
— Neal Shusterman
History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.
— Max Vos
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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 men who make history have not time to write it.
— Klemens Von Metternich
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
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
— Roger Zelazny
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
— Susannah Mansfield
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
There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.
— Joel Hunter
This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know?
— Sarah Dessen
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
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
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
— Robert Harris
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
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."]
— Eugene H. Peterson
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.
— Erik Larson
I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.
— Steven Furtick
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
— Robert Penn Warren
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
— William Wordsworth
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
I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White
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
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
— Johann Baptist Metz
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
— Eddie Vedder
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.
— Angela Flournoy
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
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
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
The normal make a living. The deranged make history.
— Christopher Titus
I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
— Cris Judd
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
— Alan Furst
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
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
how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history.
— Frank Herbert
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
— Richard Livingstone
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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
The Thames is liquid history.
— John Burns
Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
— Oliver
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
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
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
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
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
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'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
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
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
— Arnold Kling
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
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
— Vishal Mangalwadi
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