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Short History Quotes & Sayings

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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. — Hannah Arendt

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. — Bill Gates

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. — Leonard Louis Levinson

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget. — Stant Litore

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. — Steven Levy

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity. — Betty Friedan

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. — Sylvia Earle

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history — Herman Ebbinghaus

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories. — Mike Colter

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. — Frank B. Kellogg

Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay — Emil Cioran

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. — Conrad Hall

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution? — Matt Damon

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson. — Steve Aoki

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. — Deborah Harkness

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. — John H. Arnold

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. — Ibrahim Babangida

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting. — Stuart Jaffe

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt

Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens. — Stacy Schiff

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. — Stefan Zweig

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights) — Eve Kagan

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and yet the days seemed all too short. — W. Somerset Maugham

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short. — James Carl Nelson

...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other. — Jack Viertel

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness. — Stuart Haddon

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) — Kat Georges