Quotes About History

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead can tell no tales. Those were things which are not told, but forgotten. Fore where they not forgotten, how could they ever be repeated?

Uzaludno i pogrešno je tražiti smisao u bezna?ajnim a prividno važnim doga?ajima koji se dešavaju oko nas, nego ga treba tražiti u onim naslagama koja stole?a stvaraju oko nekoliko glavnih legendi ?ove?anstva- legendi o prvom grehu, potopu, Prometeju, Sinu ?ove?ijem

Tako su se obnavljali naraštaji pored mosta, a on je kao prašinu stresao sa sebe sve tragove koje su na njemu ostavljale prolazne ljudske ?udi ili potrebe, i ostajao je posle svega nepromenljiv.

Na?ini in oblike pripovedovanja se spreminjajo s ?asom in razmerami, potreba po pripovedi in pripovedovanju pa ostaja, pripoved te?e naprej in pripovedovanju ni konca. Tako je v?asih videti, kakor da ?loveštvo od prvega pobliska zavesti skozi stoletja pripoveduje samo sebi v milijon variantah vzporedno z dihanjem svojih plju? in z ritmom svojega utripa ves ?as isto pripoved.

u naše vreme i najve?i ratovi i najsavršenije pobede retko i nepotpuno rešavaju pitanja zbog kojih se ratovalo i pobedilo, ali zato otvaraju redovno velik broj novih i teških pitanja.

?udnovao kako je u svakoj duši u Bosni draga strašna pri?a, utoliko draža i bliža što istinski život ?oveku manje radosti i zabave pruža.

The God of freedom, the true God, is... not recognized by his power and glory in the history of the world, but through his helplessness and his death on the scandal of the cross of Jesus

The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.

Christ died--that is history; Christ died for our sins--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

I had read the book 1421—The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course

For four fifths of our history our planet was populated by pond scum.

I'd trust you a hell of a lot more if you didn't refer to her as an old friend when we both know she was a hell of a lot more What she was is nearly a dozen years in the past. Years before I ever set eyes on you. Now simple bafflement joined the irritation and the ice. Christ Jesus, are you jealous of a woman I haven't spoken to, seen, or thought of in years? Even only looked at him for one long moment. You're thinking of her now

Organized religion baffled her, made her vaguely uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.   —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

Put the past behind you—that's what people always said. But those people didn't get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.

The problem with progress is that it often sweeps aside, destroying rather than respecting what others have built before us.

uncomfortable. Each had followers who were so sure they were right, that their way was the only way. And throughout history they'd fought wars and shed oceans of blood to prove it.

Gwen almost as long as I can remember. When I got

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. THOMAS CARLYLE