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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
— Peter L. Berger
...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
— Mario Puzo
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.
— Alice Hoffman
History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
— Barry Ritholtz
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
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
— Cinda Williams Chima
Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
— Laurie Perez
Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.
— Michael Dibdin
Follow your heart. The past is history and tomorrow, well, who knows what tomorrow brings.
— Eve Carter
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
— Robert Harris
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
— Chris Marker
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
Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.
— Ronald Reagan
History is what people want to remember.
— Jane Stevenson
Do not mistake the history you have shared for the slightest understanding of what our marriage is, or how insignificant you are in comparison.
— Frank Underwood
this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."]
— Eugene H. Peterson
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
— Orson Welles
Is equally young and foolish in the wide lens of history, and the arrogant denial of this is what unraveled the world.
— Isaac Marion
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
— David Mitchell
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
— Rita Dove
What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
— Warren Buffett
What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
— George Orwell
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
— Frederic William Maitland
What is not recorded is not remembered.
— Benazir Bhutto
History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.
— Walter Benjamin
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
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
— Jodie Foster
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
— George Tenet
. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.
— George MacDonald Fraser
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
— Barry Humphries
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
— Thomas Sowell
Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
— Deepak Chopra
We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
— Margaret Thatcher
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
— Arthur Keith
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
— Henry David Thoreau
We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.
— Mark Wallace
History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
— Sara Sheridan
This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
— Tia Carrere
What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.
— Ernest Bevin
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
— Charles A. Reich
An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.
— James R. Thompson
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
— Dave Grohl
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
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
— Margaret Thatcher
History is all about 'what ifs
— Kate Atkinson
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
— Elias Canetti
History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.
— Tony Brooks
Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
— Tom Osborne
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don't yet. — Natasha Tsakos
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
— Chris Marker
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
— Claude Vorilhon
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
— Ravi Zacharias
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
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
— A. Whitney Brown
I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.
— Nikita Khrushchev
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
— Thomas Jefferson
You must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
— Charles Kettering
No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
— Steve Maraboli
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
— Henry L. Stimson
What man is, only his history tells.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
— George W. Bush
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
— James Russell Lowell
What makes you so arrogant to think that Christ's Atonement is for everyone else in the history of the world except you?
— Carla Kelly
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis