Quotes of: Histories Keyword

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

Therese Fowler

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

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

Tony Judt

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

Ted Nugent

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Thuy Trang

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Walter Bagehot

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

William Jennings Bryan

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

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.

Wen Jiabao

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Wilfred Owen

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.

William S. Paley

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Wole Soyinka

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Thomas Friedman

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Lew Wallace

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Billy Barty

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

Candace Camp

I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.

Pippa Evans