Quotes About Events

History is absolutely my thing.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

We've witnessed history in the making.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

History is past politics and politics present history.

History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next, " so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

There are no inevitabilities in history

In advertising an idea, results from a new combination of specific knowledge about. products and people, will general knowledge about life and events.

Food, like language, is always in motion, propelled by the same events that fill our history books. Wars, advances in science and technology, and shifting patterns of migration and commerce are continuously shaping and reshaping the foods that sustain us.