801. Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. — Nicolas Chamfort
802. Blood alone moves the wheels of history. — Martin Luther
803. It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. — Joyce Carol Oates
804. The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. — Simon Wiesenthal
805. I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life. — Mike Mills
806. History can never be covered up. — Zhu Rongji
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807. History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — Thomas Huxley
808. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. — Aristotle
809. American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. — Camille Paglia
810. I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. — Chris Rock
811. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. — Henry James
812. In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. — Stefan Zweig
813. The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. — Jean Piaget
814. All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler
815. The history of the world is the world’s court of justice. — Friedrich Schiller
816. Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan. — Sachin Tendulkar
817. If you listen to Giuliani, it’s like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I’m not part of the history. Bloomberg’s not part of the history. It’s like, he did it. He’s the only one. That’s why he’s a little crazy. — Ed Koch
818. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan
819. In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. — Tony Blair
820. Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. — Cecil Beaton
821. What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
822. History is a vast early warning system. — Norman Cousins
823. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton
824. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn’t often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. — Steven Spielberg
825. The 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 Romney
826. September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible. — Doris Lessing
827. Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard. — Pope John Paul II
828. We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. — Francois Hollande
829. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou
830. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire
831. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
832. A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ — William F. Buckley, Jr.
833. If I were beginning my career today, I don’t think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I’d be there. — David Attenborough
834. Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
835. You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. — Alan Shepard
836. The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — William James
837. I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. — Thomas Huxley
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838. Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. — Conrad Black
839. Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. — George Lucas
840. There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. — Charlie Kaufman
841. I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. — Tony Bennett
842. ‘WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. — Christopher Hitchens
843. I did not come to NASA to make history. — Sally Ride
844. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. — George W. Bush
845. History, a distillation of rumour. — Thomas Carlyle
846. Whether a woman’s running for office or she’s supporting her husband who’s running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there’s just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. — Hillary Clinton
847. The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. — Barbara Tuchman
848. The main thing is to make history, not to write it. — Otto von Bismarck
849. History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant
850. Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it. — Prince Charles
851. The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that ‘Lincoln’ is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we’ve actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln’s presidency that’s somewhat original. — Tony Kushner
852. Nixon’s full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country’s history. — Conrad Black
853. I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. — Demetri Martin
854. The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
855. History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. — Tim Pawlenty
856. I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn’t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… I’m the most sampled artist in history. — Rick James
857. I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. — Calvin Coolidge
858. I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat it’s nice to have that family history. — Rachel Bilson
859. History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman
860. Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. — John Moody
861. In 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. Kennedy
862. All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. — Neil Armstrong
863. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi
864. History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim. — Robert Anton Wilson
865. There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt
866. I’m a good son, a good father, a good husband – I’ve been married to the same woman for 30 years. I’m a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, ‘You know, that’s part of history.’ — Samuel L. Jackson
867. My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. — David Soul
868. 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. — Robert Caro
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869. A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. — Russell Baker
870. War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. — Jane Goodall
871. I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar
872. I’ve never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come it’s history? — Julie Burchill
873. I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that’s the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. — Leonardo DiCaprio
874. Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. — Daisaku Ikeda
875. Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
876. This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we’re on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. — Marco Rubio
877. Life doesn’t just happen it’s constructed through the history of power. And that’s something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that’s trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. — Mike Mills
878. The ’80s were fabulous. The ’90s sucked, and the ’70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There’s something that’s just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and ‘I’m a loner.’ — Jennifer Sky
879. I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone. — Enya
880. I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. — Henry Adams
881. There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. — Georgios A. Papandreou
882. The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. — Henry Ward Beecher
883. Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. — Sandra Day O’Connor
884. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. — Woodrow Wilson
885. The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. — Shimon Peres
886. The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. — Dalai Lama
887. We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare
888. I’ll watch any show on the History Channel. — Rick Springfield
889. History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without. — Howard Nemerov
890. Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. — James Buchan
891. The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. — Bertrand Russell
892. The future has a way of arriving unannounced. — George Will
893. 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 Voting Rights Act of 1965. — Herman Cain
894. If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history. — Dominic Monaghan
895. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. — Winston Churchill
896. Legend remains victorious in spite of history. — Sarah Bernhardt
897. History never looks like history when you are living through it. — John W. Gardner
898. I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. — Vivienne Westwood
899. I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history. — Pat Robertson
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900. After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. — Condoleezza Rice
901. We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. — Fred Allen
902. There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. — Pat Robertson
903. History shows that there are no invincible armies. — Joseph Stalin
904. I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history. — Michael Phelps
905. If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. — Temple Grandin
906. Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag
907. Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert
908. What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. — Barney Frank
909. Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. — Steve King
910. The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. — Margaret Fuller
911. Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. — Carl Sagan
912. Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. — Martin Heidegger
913. The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me. — Lyndon B. Johnson
914. In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer
915. If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises
916. It’s incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight. — Helena Christensen
917. If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan
918. I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim. — Queen Elizabeth II
919. You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don’t love themselves enough. — Tom Hiddleston
920. I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. — Jon Meacham
921. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. — Arthur Erickson
922. No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. — William Hazlitt
923. If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. — Dean Kamen
924. I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. — Christina Aguilera
925. It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. — Conrad Hall
926. When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
927. It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. — Gene Simmons
928. I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. — John Henrik Clarke
929. Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz
930. How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions? — Polly Toynbee
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931. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. — Bill Moyers
932. You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. — Peter Abrahams
933. The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it. — Arthur Smith
934. Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. — John Polkinghorne
935. Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. — Chinua Achebe
936. Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk. — Sally Field
937. The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong
938. Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather. — Ilka Chase
939. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. — Jawaharlal Nehru
940. If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. — Terry Eagleton
941. I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history. — Colin Powell
942. But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I’m very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. — Tom Hanks
943. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. — Milton Friedman
944. The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. — Walter Bagehot
945. Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens
946. What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann
947. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Barbara Tuchman
948. All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. — Alice Walker
949. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. — Walter Scott
950. It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. — Henry James