Quotes about what history is

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. Votes: 3

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. Votes: 3

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another. Votes: 3

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones. Votes: 3

You wanna start a fire I've got the coal, that's what history is to me. And it attracts the right person to do something with it to create the next fire. And fires are fuel and food and energy and life. Votes: 3

It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear. Votes: 3

We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if American invasion to Iraq from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world. Votes: 3

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands. Votes: 3

History is only written from what remains. Votes: 2

What is history but a fable agreed upon? Votes: 2

History is history. What is done is done. Votes: 2

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. Votes: 2

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism. Votes: 2

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. Votes: 2

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. Votes: 2

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. Votes: 2

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Votes: 2

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.' Votes: 2

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am. Votes: 2

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about' Votes: 2

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. Votes: 2

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. Votes: 2

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing. Votes: 2

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. Votes: 2

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. Votes: 2

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. Votes: 2

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. Votes: 2

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated. Votes: 2

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Votes: 1

History is simply what's behind us. Votes: 0

What man is, only history tells. Votes: 0

History is all about 'what ifs Votes: 0

What man is, only his history tells. Votes: 0

History remembers most what you did last. Votes: 0

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth. Votes: 0

History is the science of what never happens twice. Votes: 0

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated. Votes: 0

History shows you don't know what the future brings. Votes: 0

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on... Votes: 0

History is what the evidence compels us to believe. Votes: 0

What is history, indeed, but a record of change? Votes: 0

History -- its what those bitter old men write. Votes: 0

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history. Votes: 0

We are exactly what our history made us to be. Votes: 0

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. Votes: 0

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. Votes: 0

History is not what happened but what is written down Votes: 0

History is what we read, write and think about the past. Votes: 0

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. Votes: 0

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history. Votes: 0

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. Votes: 0

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery. Votes: 0

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us! Votes: 0

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors. Votes: 0

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that. Votes: 0

What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? Votes: 0

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. Votes: 0

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. Votes: 0

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices. Votes: 0

Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night. Votes: 0

Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history Votes: 0

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History Votes: 0

Man in a word has no nature; what he has. ..is history. Votes: 0

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied? Votes: 0

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen. Votes: 0

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left. Votes: 0

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember. Votes: 0

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light. Votes: 0

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened. Votes: 0

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. Votes: 0

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. Votes: 0

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different. Votes: 0

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? Votes: 0

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history. Votes: 0

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. Votes: 0

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important. Votes: 0

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. Votes: 0

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. Votes: 0

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy. Votes: 0

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood. Votes: 0

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about! Votes: 0

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Votes: 0

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! Votes: 0

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true. Votes: 0

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? Votes: 0

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. Votes: 0

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. Votes: 0

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? Votes: 0

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free. Votes: 0

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance Votes: 0

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history. Votes: 0

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. Votes: 0

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music. Votes: 0

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. Votes: 0

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of. Votes: 0

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Votes: 0

Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday. Votes: 0

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. Votes: 0

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter. Votes: 0

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. Votes: 0

...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history... Votes: 0

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. Votes: 0

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? Votes: 0

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. Votes: 0

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone. Votes: 0

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? Votes: 0

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago. Votes: 0

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. Votes: 0

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. Votes: 0

We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed. Votes: 0

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history. Votes: 0

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. Votes: 0

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. Votes: 0

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. Votes: 0

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. Votes: 0

Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you. Votes: 0

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. Votes: 0

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. Votes: 0

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. Votes: 0

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees. Votes: 0

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory! Votes: 0

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today Votes: 0

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria." Votes: 0

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. Votes: 0

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it. Votes: 0

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. Votes: 0

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done. Votes: 0

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. Votes: 0

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. Votes: 0

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened. Votes: 0

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. Votes: 0

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. Votes: 0

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. Votes: 0

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. Votes: 0

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. Votes: 0

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. Votes: 0

What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters Votes: 0

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. Votes: 0

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. Votes: 0

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. Votes: 0

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. Votes: 0

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend. Votes: 0

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming. Votes: 0

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming. Votes: 0

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it Votes: 0

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? Votes: 0

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery Votes: 0

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. Votes: 0

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that Votes: 0

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional. Votes: 0

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. Votes: 0

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. Votes: 0

...history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material Votes: 0

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Votes: 0

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. Votes: 0

History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more. Votes: 0

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways. Votes: 0

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. Votes: 0

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. Votes: 0

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. Votes: 0

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. Votes: 0

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. Votes: 0

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. Votes: 0

Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind? Votes: 0

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. Votes: 0

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do. Votes: 0

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons. Votes: 0

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do. Votes: 0

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? Votes: 0

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. Votes: 0

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? Votes: 0

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? Votes: 0

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. Votes: 0

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. Votes: 0

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! Votes: 0

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular. Votes: 0

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? Votes: 0

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament. Votes: 0

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. Votes: 0

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. Votes: 0

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? Votes: 0

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Votes: 0

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. Votes: 0

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. Votes: 0

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. Votes: 0

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books."¦But what was love but pain? Votes: 0

History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass. Votes: 0

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. Votes: 0

What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us. Votes: 0

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. Votes: 0

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s. Votes: 0

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. Votes: 0

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. Votes: 0

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. Votes: 0

We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. Votes: 0

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. Votes: 0

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. Votes: 0

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed. Votes: 0

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality. Votes: 0

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! Votes: 0

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. Votes: 0

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? Votes: 0

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. Votes: 0

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it. Votes: 0

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality. Votes: 0

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? Votes: 0

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. Votes: 0

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. Votes: 0

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. Votes: 0

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it. Votes: 0

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. Votes: 0

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do. Votes: 0

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. Votes: 0

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. Votes: 0

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. Votes: 0

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. Votes: 0

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Votes: 0

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. Votes: 0

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it? Votes: 0

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. Votes: 0

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. Votes: 0

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. Votes: 0

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history. Votes: 0

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are. Votes: 0

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified. Votes: 0

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general. Votes: 0

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year. Votes: 0

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. Votes: 0

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years. Votes: 0

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak? Votes: 0

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be. Votes: 0

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. Votes: 0

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs. Votes: 0

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? Votes: 0

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done. Votes: 0

History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers. Votes: 0

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century. Votes: 0

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art. Votes: 0

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago. Votes: 0

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. Votes: 0

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. Votes: 0

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Votes: 0

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. Votes: 0

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. Votes: 0

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Votes: 0

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it. Votes: 0

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. Votes: 0

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. Votes: 0

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. Votes: 0

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope. Votes: 0

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope. Votes: 0

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history. Votes: 0

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. Votes: 0

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say. Votes: 0

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. Votes: 0

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. Votes: 0

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened. Votes: 0

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within. Votes: 0

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. Votes: 0

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you. Votes: 0

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. Votes: 0

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone. Votes: 0

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. Votes: 0

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Votes: 0

what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics. Votes: 0

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people, Votes: 0

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. Votes: 0

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are. Votes: 0

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. Votes: 0

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? Votes: 0

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. Votes: 0

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. Votes: 0

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. Votes: 0

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. Votes: 0

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. Votes: 0

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history. Votes: 0

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different. Votes: 0

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different. Votes: 0

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by. Votes: 0

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success. Votes: 0

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. Votes: 0

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now. Votes: 0

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. Votes: 0

Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do. Votes: 0

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Votes: 0

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. Votes: 0

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? Votes: 0

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present? Votes: 0

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past. Votes: 0

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists. Votes: 0

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? Votes: 0

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history. Votes: 0

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. Votes: 0

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. Votes: 0

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles. Votes: 0

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived. Votes: 0

I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math. Votes: 0

Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that. Votes: 0

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. Votes: 0

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? Votes: 0

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Votes: 0

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened. Votes: 0

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture. Votes: 0

In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. Votes: 0

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation. Votes: 0

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened. Votes: 0

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. Votes: 0

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. Votes: 0

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed. Votes: 0

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies? Votes: 0

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. Votes: 0

Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice. Votes: 0

...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Votes: 0

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. Votes: 0

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. Votes: 0

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. Votes: 0

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it. Votes: 0

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath. Votes: 0

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form. Votes: 0

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now. Votes: 0

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst. Votes: 0

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later. Votes: 0

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? Votes: 0

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history. Votes: 0

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present. Votes: 0

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history. Votes: 0

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Votes: 0

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India. Votes: 0

The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world. Votes: 0

Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now. Votes: 0

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. Votes: 0

The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred. Votes: 0

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history. Votes: 0

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions. Votes: 0

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. Votes: 0

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. Votes: 0

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives... Votes: 0

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality. Votes: 0

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality. Votes: 0

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president Votes: 0

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind. Votes: 0

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history? Votes: 0

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. Votes: 0

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. Votes: 0

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House. Votes: 0

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next. Votes: 0

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. Votes: 0

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved. Votes: 0

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. Votes: 0

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. Votes: 0

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. Votes: 0

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice. Votes: 0

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. Votes: 0

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. Votes: 0

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? Votes: 0

The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil. Votes: 0

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. Votes: 0

We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone. Votes: 0

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. Votes: 0

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?' Votes: 0

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. Votes: 0

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental? Votes: 0

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference! Votes: 0

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' Votes: 0

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! Votes: 0

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. Votes: 0

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. Votes: 0

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing. Votes: 0

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic. Votes: 0

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy) Votes: 0

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become. Votes: 0

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. Votes: 0

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people. Votes: 0

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely. Votes: 0

You would think the fury of aerial bombardmentwould rouse God to relent; the infinite spacesAre still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.History, even, does not know what is meant. Votes: 0

a great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth Votes: 0

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation. Votes: 0