Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Jules Romains

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A. J. P. Taylor

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Jack Wild

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Kate Atkinson

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Katharine Anthony

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

Kevin Spacey

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

Learned Hand

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Lucy Larcom

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Ludwig von Mises

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Maya Angelou

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Malcolm Boyd

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

Mary J. Blige

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

Mason Cooley

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Marla Gibbs

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Ma Jian

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Mackenzie King

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills