H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is a symptom of our disease”
“History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.”
“History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.”
“History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.”
“History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers ; but they may well enable them to survive in greater numbers.”
Source: Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales
“History is a vast early warning system.”
“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”
Source: A Study of History: Abridgement of
“History is a vivid declaration of freedoms sought and freedoms denied. Yet, may we be sufficiently brave to be the nation that pens a history where freedom never needs to be ‘sought’ because it has become the indomitable essence of everything that we stand on, stand for, and stand in zealous defense of.”
“History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”
Source: Short studies on Greate Subjects
“History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
“History is a wheel. And all mobs are the same. Full of small men with big appetites. Only way they grow is by eating men like us.”
Source: Iron Gold
“History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.”
“History is absolutely my thing.”
“History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..”
Source: The Last Treasure of Ancient England
“History is all explained by geography.”
Source: Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978
“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.”
“History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.”
Source: The Making of the President 1960
“History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.”
“History is always older.
—Black Fez axiom”
Source: Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy
“History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.”
“History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.”
“History is always written by the winner and they think their shit don't stink.”
Source: Lucifer's Emblem
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
“History is an accumulation of error.”
“History is an act of exclusion.”
“History is an agreed-upon fiction.”
Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
“History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.”
“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future”
“History is an argument without end.”
“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”
“History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.”
“History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.”
Source: Heart Mountain
“History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.”
“History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.”
“History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.”
“History is and should be a science.”
“History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.”
“History is as much an art as a science.”
“History is as Old as My Grandfather”
“History is at once freedom and necessity.”
Source: Selections from political writings (1910-1920)
“History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event. And so that's why I go, "Wow. That's what acting really is. You find out the background, you get the joy of creating a fictional history of a fictional character and you get to tell a story." So I felt that acting is making history come alive and it became my mode of trying to figure out what this craft of acting is really all about.”
“History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.”
“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“History is but a collection of images - pregnant, expecting, screaming; and if an image could deliver a million words, it would be that of the Nandi waiting patiently for 400 years for his lord to emerge. Will he have to wait for another 400 years?”
“History is but a confused heap of facts.”
“History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.”