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I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
— Leonard Cohen
It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865.
— Neal Shusterman
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
— Pope John Paul II
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.
— Maximillian Degenerez
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
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
— John Flanagan
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
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
— Lord Henry Wotton
The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
— Walter Jon Williams
With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?
— Neil Cavuto
There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.
— Joel Hunter
The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
— Todd Gitlin
You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.
— Chris Dietzel
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
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
— William Carlos Williams
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
— Orson Welles
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
— Mardy Grothe
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Capitalism's machinery favored these capitalists as it had never favored anyone else in its history.
— Michael Lewis
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston S. Churchill
It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.
— Andy Andrews
There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
— Leanda De Lisle
Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
— Aurin Squire
Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.
— Don DeLillo
There's too much history in York, the past is so crowded that sometimes it feels as if there's no room for the living.
— Kate Atkinson
Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.
— Ludivine Sagnier
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
— Sun Ra
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
— Ken Burns
More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one's status in society.
— Cindy Ann Peterson
It's up to history to judge.
— Pol Pot
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
— Robert Smithson
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
— Norman Corwin
I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.
— Kyle Abraham
My history's not very good, but did David win?
— Andy Gray
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
— Cybill Shepherd
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— Novak Djokovic
I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.
— Russell Simmons
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.
— Vladimir Putin
We humans have a long and wonderful history of transcending our beliefs about what's possible.
— Gay Hendricks
The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.
— Kathleen Hanna
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
— Barbara Kruger
Work Hard, have fun, make history
— Jeff Bezos
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
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
— Dolores Huerta
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
— Eleanor Clift
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
— Harry S. Truman
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earththe very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.
— Johnny Depp
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
— Nancy Pelosi
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.
— Henry A. Kissinger
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
— Friedrich Schiller
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
— Harry S. Dent
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?
— Richard Corliss
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
— Salman Rushdie
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
— Thomas S. Monson
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
— James Howard Kunstler
This is unparalyzed in the state's history.
— Gib Lewis
Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history ... There's nothing more powerful than history ...
— Brad Meltzer
All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.
— James MacDonald
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
