All Quotes

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
‐‐ Karl Marx

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
‐‐ Philip Guedalla

History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.
‐‐ Sarah Churchwell

History's a resource.
‐‐ Laura Linney

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
‐‐ Ken Burns

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
‐‐ Christopher Bond

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
‐‐ Dorothy Salisbury Davis

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.
‐‐ Steve Vai

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

History seems to be so clumsy.
‐‐ Robert Johnson

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.
‐‐ Steve Berry

History should be written as philosophy.
‐‐ Voltaire

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
‐‐ Irving Azoff

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
‐‐ Pete Sessions

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
‐‐ Hugh Evans

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
‐‐ Michael Franti

History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.
‐‐ Chris Gabrieli

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.
‐‐ Gordon Smith

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.
‐‐ Pete Sessions

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

History shows that there are no invincible armies.
‐‐ Joseph Stalin

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
‐‐ Michael Moritz

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
‐‐ Rick Warren

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
‐‐ Jim Webb

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
‐‐ Sondre Lerche

History shows you don't know what the future brings.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
‐‐ Eric Holder

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
‐‐ Anselm Kiefer

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
‐‐ Bennie Thompson

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

History takes time. History makes memory.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
‐‐ Austan Goolsbee

History teaches that the overwhelming majority of elected officials follow movement builders outside government when it comes to the new and risky... Once you recognize it, demand it and reward it, it will happen.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman