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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience. — Nicky Gumbel

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

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

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. — Jacques Chirac

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R R Martin

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

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. — Eric Hoffer

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

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future. — Gustavo Gutierrez

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

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. — Jane Haddam

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

He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road. — Ari Berk

Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming. — John Piper

History is not history unless it is the truth. — Abraham Lincoln

The long historian of my country's woes. — Homer

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering." — Johann Baptist Metz

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. — Jessie Burton

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

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

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors. — Perry DeAngelis

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

The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway. — Steven Magee

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

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold. — Jason E. Royle

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

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

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion. — Jose Andres

The morality of art is in its very beauty. — Gustave Flaubert

History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. — Antonio Tabucchi

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. — Kenneth Roberts

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth
the very thing the whole story has been about. — C.S. Lewis

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. — Lauren Groff

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

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle

No woman in the history of humanity has ever found a comfortable way of dressing herself after sex. — Kay Hadashi

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history. — Ernst Zundel

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

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

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H.L. Mencken

The only history that matters is the history we know. — Ezra Pound

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

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 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

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

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

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

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

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

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. — Stebby Julionatan

The normal make a living. The deranged make history. — Christopher Titus

If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation. — Erik Larson

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. — Nikita Khrushchev

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

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. — George Vecsey

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history. — Jim Cooper

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

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

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

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