History Quotes

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

History does not always repeat itself.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Vot

I came, I saw, I conquered.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

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

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

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

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.