Quotes with history

  • Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
  • The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
  • In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
  • I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
  • In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
  • To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
  • Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
  • My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
  • In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego.
  • Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Lord George Byron History is the devil's scripture.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Karl Marx The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Max Eastman A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Leigh Hunt Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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