Top 1200 Events In History Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

The powers that be not only try to control events, but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.

I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus how much of it is just ignored or looked back on with mockery or insincerity or what have you. But it was one of the most crucially important events in all of human history in terms of the preservation of freedom and liberty and the notion of democracy and things associated with it.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

The Red Cross Gala is unique. There's great history there. It's the highlight of the summer in terms of social and charity events.

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

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?

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.

Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events.

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.