Top 1200 Great History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

Let's face it: there aren't a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you're going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

I hate The Oscars. The Oscars make me want to throw things at the TV. In the ancient history of The Oscars, people would go on and make political statements and get thrown off the stage, but the last great political statement, I think, was when Michael Moore started raging against Bush a few years back. Everybody booed him, even though I can't imagine Hollywood booing a guy who's bashing Bush. That was the last great spontaneous moment on The Oscars.

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie rock scene, Chicago house music. It's a great town.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

I'm hugely proud to be able to work with Ferrari - such a great team and huge amount of history, especially combined with my dad. I'm really proud to be able to be part of it. All our hearts are very red.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.