All Quotes

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
‐‐ Donald Kagan

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
‐‐ Robert Johnson

History has been the history of warfare.
‐‐ Godfrey Reggio

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
‐‐ Ricardo Salinas Pliego

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
‐‐ B. C. Forbes

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.
‐‐ Steve Jurvetson

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
‐‐ Billy Sheehan

History has repeatedly shown that the costs of many government healthcare programs far exceed early projections.
‐‐ Rick Scott

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
‐‐ Victor Davis Hanson

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
‐‐ Bob Barr

History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.
‐‐ Jason Kilar

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
‐‐ Preet Bharara

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
‐‐ Jeff Vandermeer

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
‐‐ Alan Bean

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
‐‐ Tim Pawlenty

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
‐‐ David McCullough

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
‐‐ Philip Roth

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
‐‐ George Santayana

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
‐‐ Malcolm X

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

History is a relay of revolutions.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

History is a set of lies agreed upon.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
‐‐ Ted Koppel

History is a vast early warning system.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

History is about loops and continuums.
‐‐ Mike Bidlo

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
‐‐ Simon Schama

History is always changing.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell

History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
‐‐ Charles Stross

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
‐‐ Frank Rich

History is everything that has ever happened.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

History is exciting because it's true.
‐‐ Marissa Moss

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
‐‐ Rachel Nichols

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer