History Quotes

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Elliot Perlman

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Ernest Renan

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Edwin Starr

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Elizabeth Strout

If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufactur...

Eric Schmidt

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.

Ernest Thompson Seton

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Eckhart Tolle

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

Ellen Tauscher

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos withi...

Edmund White

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their y...

Edmund White

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Elie Wiesel

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Elie Wiesel

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Emma Watson

I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

Evan Williams