Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.
Joan RiversWell-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher UlrichHistory is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeWhen I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.
Mahatma GandhiHistory doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Mark TwainMore than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody AllenThe very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark TwainHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de TocquevilleFrance and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny DeppA people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus GarveyFor my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillFor Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going, unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya AngelouHistory is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.
George SantayanaThe history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice, their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerI don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation, if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. NixonAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Arthur BaldwinThe point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Franklin D. RooseveltHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. EisenhowerHistory is the devil's scripture
Lord ByronViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherHistory repeats itself first, as tragedy second as farce.
Karl MarxHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. KennedyIn the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. KennedyHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireHistory does nothing, it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.
Karl MarxHistory does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor W. AdornoHistory is written by the victors.
Winston ChurchillIn known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan WattsAmericans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.
George W. BushHistory is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireHistory develops, art stands still.
E. M. ForsterSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinYou can write me down in history with hateful twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise.
Maya AngelouHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawEvery literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason CooleyHistory takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude SteinGod cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel ButlerI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John BurroughsA Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William F. Buckley, Jr.A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma GandhiHistory is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon BonaparteThe history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz KafkaHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouHistory never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. GardnerAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliHistory shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph StalinHistory is more or less bunk.
Henry FordAll History is current, all injustice continues on some level somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerFor the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret MeadHistory a distillation of rumour.
Thomas CarlyleHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander PopeThe great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah WinfreyPerhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.
Benjamin FranklinBeware the Ides of March.
William ShakespeareHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WellsFrom their experience, or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous HuxleyDe Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous HuxleySometimes - history needs a push.
Vladimir LeninHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon BonaparteA woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington IrvingHistory makes people wise.
Francis BaconEurope was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret ThatcherFew will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.
Robert KennedyNo humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'RourkeIf you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. LewisI believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature ... I'd put it right up there.
Dave BarryI sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. BushPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Arthur BaldwinI'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it check the cash register.
Mike TysonWoz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve JobsWe live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug CouplandMen make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. TrumanThe Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry MillerAntiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis BaconHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want, not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusMy own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. NixonIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles DarwinAnyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl MarxIt is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl MarxLife isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Richard M. NixonHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WellsThe Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave BarryPresidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. JohnsonYeah I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history too.
Joan RiversWhat is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon BonaparteBut perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation the wonder of science scientific ways of thinking and the history of scientific ideas rather than laboratory experience.
Richard DawkinsI don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
Colin PowellThe future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama your agenda is not new. It's not change and it's not hope.
Rush LimbaughOur nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush LimbaughBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreSooner I'd try to change history than turn political than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing
Richard BachWords when written crystallize history, their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
Francis BaconNo one can take the wealth of the world with him when he dies. This is a truth we have seen throughout the history of mankind.
Sai BabaService without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.
Sai BabaThe soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt RomneyIt's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug CouplandRome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George EliotWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaThe happiest women like the happiest nations have no history.
George EliotMen do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous HuxleyThe history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel ButlerThe history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William JamesThe charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous HuxleyI would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen HawkingMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck PalahniukIn the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt RomneyI want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama