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The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine. — Storm Constantine

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization! — Bill Walton

If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. — David Gelernter

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game. — Phil Mickelson

If Miller had brought him all this way just to let him die in an abandoned train car, it was the longest prank setup in history. — James S.A. Corey

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective. — Nelson Mandela

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it. — Jason Russell

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach. — Joanna Denny

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way. — Gerhard Richter

We have history, you and I. You just don't know it yet. — Sarah Addison Allen

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris

Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. — Jonathan Frakes

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. — Dave Grohl

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. — Gloria Steinem

Love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you — Lady Gaga

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history. — Kathryn Lasky

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. — Big Pun

There are no extraordinary men ... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. — William Halsey

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. — Wes Nisker

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it — Bob Ross

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint

I just don't see why the past has to matter. — Cassandra Clare

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E.L. Doctorow

Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other. — Aleksandr Voinov

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am. — Randy Houser

I mean, doesn't it change history even if you just tread on an ant?' 'For the ant, certainly,' said Qu. — Terry Pratchett

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. — Flea

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe — Andy Andrews

At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues. — Jonathan Tropper

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. — Siobhan Fahey

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. — David Von Drehle

History is just new people making old mistakes. — Sigmund Freud

As for you, she'd say to me, you're just a backlash. Flash in the pan. History will absolve me. But — Margaret Atwood

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. — Cyndi Lauper

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did! — Stephen Colbert

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing. — C.A. Pruit

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history. — Norman Lear

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another — Alan Bennett

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. — Bernadine Dohrn

I bet in the All-Time History of Dating no girl has ever told a boy who has just asked her out that she has fleas-and then farted! — Zoe Sugg

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. — Evita Peron

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. — Walter A. McDougall

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. — Flea

He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind.
He will come soon to our world just like a thief in the night. — Toba Beta

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight. — Robert D. Richardson

Everything I do, I put my full heart into. I don't want to be just another actor, another singer, another artist. I want to invent history. — Shameik Moore

Let's just hope history forgets the snafus. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back. — Seth Klarman

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club. — John W. Campbell Jr.

I'm not sure if you just screwed with history or if history just screwed with you. — Lesley Livingston

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. — LL Cool J

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version. — Patrick Ness

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. — Duff Goldman

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can't just wipe away your history. — T.J. Klune

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X

I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.
They just did it in different ways. — Joanna Wylde

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. — Todd Garlington

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors. — Richard Paul Evans

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous. — Logan Lerman

The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. — Harold Holzer

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality. — Jim Webb

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose. — Artie Lange

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me. — Akeem Ayers

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

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

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

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history. — Ron Paul

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't get to hold rallies. — Alex London

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run. — Malcolm Lowry

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it. — Miles Teller

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out, — Hillary Clinton

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it. — Lee Clow

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it? — Jeanne M. Dams

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

It's people like you who change history. People like me
we just let things happen to us. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. — Scott McCloud

History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. — Julian Barnes

To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly. — Reid Scott

History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone ... (Page 303) — Holly Schindler

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited. — Robert E.Lee

We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our shock. That day we learnt a new word - war. — P.J. Whittlesea