Quotes of: Histories Keyword

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

Playing with Matches

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.

Past Perfect

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

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

The Quarry And The Lot

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

The Queen of the Tearling

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

There Is A Season: A Memoir

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

Ulysses

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The beauty of history is that it can be altered by changing ones perspective. If the interpretation varies so does the impact. Free will is the governor.

Wantin

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Ways of Seeing

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

Ben Shapiro

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Anthony Albanese

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Osborne

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

Benazir Bhutto

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

Chaim Potok

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

Diego Maradona

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

Hari Kunzru

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

Ira Sachs

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.

Leon Redbone

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Martin Van Creveld