Quotes About Events

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

History is never surprising after it happens.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

History is His story.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

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.

Journalism is the first draft of history

History is everything that has ever happened.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

News is history shot on the wing.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.