- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.
- Drunks
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was France.
- Flower
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back on humanity's battle with pollution, history has been made by thousands of ordinary people who one day say, 'No. I'm not satisfied. I don't want to wait, and I don't want to pass the buck. I want to stand up and do something. I want to do it here, and I want do to it now.'
- Great Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020