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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
— Javier Bardem
...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
— Mario Puzo
A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
— Jennifer Stone
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
— Felix Rohatyn
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
— Jennifer Donnelly
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
— Ashwin Sanghi
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life ... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
— Kevin McCloud
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
— Adam Garfinkle
There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.
— Hamid Dabashi
The past is what nourishes and sustains us. It is like going to work on a good breakfast.
— Robert Stephen Parry
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.
— Richard Flanagan
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
— Jean Houston
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
— George R R Martin
History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
— Lewis H. Lapham
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
— James Baldwin
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
— Kate Elliott
What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
— Abigail Adams
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
— Paulo Coelho
What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon Bonaparte
Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
— Carter G. Woodson
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
— Stephen Jay Gould
As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3
— Adrian Goldsworthy
What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer ... from a thousand questions?
— G.F. Smith
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— George Macaulay Trevelyan
What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
— Johan Huizinga
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
— Dave Grohl
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
because what is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted.
— Ralph Ellison
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
— Ravi Zacharias
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
— Claude Vorilhon
A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.
— Richard B. Spence
This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
— Tia Carrere
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
— Henry David Thoreau
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
— Jodie Foster
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.
— George W. S. Trow
The history of PR is ... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.
— Stuart Ewen
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
— Terence McKenna
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
— Terence McKenna
What is history, indeed, but a record of change?
— Jawaharlal Nehru
History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
— Terence McKenna
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
— Thomas Mann
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
History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.
— Jason E. Hodges
What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!
— Bryant McGill
