Quotes About History

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

All history is a lie!

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

Only the vanquished remember history.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.