Top 319 Histories Quotes & Sayings

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

It's a great honour to make a lot of histories, to be No.1 player in Japan but that never gives me the pressure.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

Study prophecies when they are become histories.

Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.

... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

I have become very good at clearing histories.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.

As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

There is no history, only histories.

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.