Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John Robert Seeley

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Nikita Khrushchev

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic.

Nicolas Chamfort

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.

Nicolas Chamfort

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

N. Scott Momaday

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Matthew Arnold

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Max Beerbohm

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Penelope Lively

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

Max Nordau

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Mason Cooley

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Mason Cooley

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Theodore Roosevelt

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Theodore Roosevelt

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Theodor Adorno

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Elia Kazan

If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.

Matt Barr

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

By its nature, (digital distribution) is retailing, and (the record companies) don't have a history of that.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Josh Henderson

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

The coincidences are high. He had a history of role play in relation to other films.

Milan Kundera

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Marcel Proust

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

James Russell Lowell

History is clarified experience.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

The history is immense down here. We're one year older than Germantown Avenue.

Henry Adams

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.