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One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
— John Andrew Rice
History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.
— Emmitt Smith
History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
— Wallace Stegner
The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
— Wright Morris
After all, history proved that eventually, everyone leaves me. Why would you be any different?Now I know that you were.
Are. — Leisa Rayven
Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
— Erik Larson
With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?
— Neil Cavuto
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
— Bell Hooks
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
— John Cleese
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
— Sufjan Stevens
People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.
— Dean Koontz
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
— Niall Ferguson
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
Tomorrow is a mystery. Yesterday is history. Live today, it's a gift, that's why they call it present.
— Aleatha Romig
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
— Marc Newson
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.
— Brandi Carlile
I just don't see why the past has to matter.
— Cassandra Clare
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?
— Galinda Glinda
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
— Kevin Spacey
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?
— Salman Rushdie
HE: History has no smell.ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn't stink like the present. — Jeanette Winterson
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.
— F. Sionil Jose
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
— David McCullough
The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.
— Barbara Holland
Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.
— James Burke
The need to recreate the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place. Never
— Stephen King
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
— David McCullough
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
— George Burns
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
— Hank Williams Jr.
I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
— Gregg Easterbrook
I wonder why we hate the past so.
— William Dean Howells
No one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem
— Nick Bantock
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
— William Butler Yeats
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
— James C. Scott
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
— E.L. Doctorow
I love history ... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
— Kelly Wearstler
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
— Jamaica Kincaid
Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us?
— J.K. Rowling
Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why.
— Fennel Hudson
With you ... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.
— Melissa Petreschock
