Quotes About History

And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into the history of the Galactic Rangers.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.