Top 1200 Rewriting History Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

Little projects - not feature - film projects - you know, theater things, writing things, and jobs like doing rewriting for money, stuff like that. I don't recommend it. It's not a schedule that I'd want, although it was really good for me in a lot of ways. I became a better writer.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.