H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
Source: The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction
“History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.”
Source: Killosophy
“History doesn’t always provide tidy endings.”
Source: A Cold and Secret Death: A Cold War Mystery
“History doesn’t start with a tall building
and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking
us for suckers and is playing a mean game.”
“History doesn’t whisper to the brave—it waits for them to listen."
— Chris Watson, The Concord Protocol”
“History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.”
“History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“History doesn't crawl; it leaps.”
“History doesn't have a curfew.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“History doesn't pass the dishes again.”
“History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.”
“History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.”
“History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.”
Source: Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reaga n
“History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense.”
“History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.”
Source: The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
“History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.”
Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.”
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy. In the ancient texts the villains always wear a particularly vulgar purple, eat too much roasted peacock, douse themselves in rare unguents, melt down pearls. Whether you were a transgressive, power-hungry Egyptian queen or a ruthless pirate, you were known for the "odious extravagance" of your accessories. Iniquity and opulence went hand in hand; your world blazed purple and gold. Nor did it help that history bled into mythology, the human into the divine.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book
“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”
Source: Healology
“History flows through us. We need only gaze inward to glimpse the future's unwritten pages.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“History forgets the vomit and the shit, the blood and the horses with their guts blown away, the cries of men as they shit their pants and drowned in their own blood.”
“History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.”
“History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.”
“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”
Source: English History 1914-1945
“History gets written by the winners.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.”
Source: Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World
“History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.”
“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”
Source: Darkness at noon
“History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.”
“History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.”
“History happens one person at a time.”
Source: Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
“History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it”
Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
“History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.”
Source: Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle
“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”
Source: The history of Rome
“History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.”
“History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janis’ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part. Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.”
“History has a way of repeating itself, but it's up to us to break the cycle.”
Source: Hattie Big Sky
“History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.”
“History has always been won by a slim margin: a few votes, one “yes”, or the first “no more”.”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.”
“History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.”
“History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.”
“History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.”
“History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.”
“History has been the history of warfare.”
“History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.”
Source: Giovanni's Angel
“History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”
“History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.”