Quotes of: The-history-of Keyword

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Hilary Mantel

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

Hilary Mantel

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

Henry Rollins

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Jack Abramoff

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

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.

James Baker

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Jim Cooper

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

James Ellroy

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

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.

Jodie Foster

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

James J. Hill

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Johan Huizinga

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

Jurgen Habermas

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Julio Iglesias

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

John D. Long