H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“History is made by those who say no.”
Source: England's Dreaming
“History is made every day.”
“History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.”
“History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.”
“History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.”
“History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.”
“History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
“History is merely gossip”
Source: Aphorisms
“History is more interesting than politics.”
“History is most important to those without a past.”
Source: The New Land
“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”
“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
Source: Casino Royale
“History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.”
Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary
“History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy”
“History is my passion, my calling. Or, to be more painfully truthful, it is my field of least incompetence. It is what, for the time being, I do.”
Source: Making History
“History is my strong suit."
She had long ago taken it upon herself to read every book in the palace library, after discovering just how flimsy her education was. While the sons and daughters of palace courtiers came home from school each day brimming with new knowledge, Jasmine was kept at home with a tutor--- and her private lessons in etiquette and art weren't exactly the foundation that kings were built on. Sometimes Jasmine had the sneaking suspicion that Taminah never expected her to end up on the throne at all, that she was preparing the princess to be a royal wife instead. After all, she had mentioned more than once the possibility of Jasmine having a son in the future who could rule in her stead. But one other thing the older woman had done right was introduce Jasmine to books, especially Agrabah's myths and fables, in which terrors jumped from every page. Stories with heroes and demons so vivid, they could have been real.
After she had read all the stories she could get her hands on, Jasmine moved on to history texts and illustrated maps. Hers might have been an incomplete education, but those books allowed a sheltered princess to see some of the world, both real and imagined. And they gave her a window into the past.”
Source: Realm of Wonders
“History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”
“History is neither written nor made without love or hate.”
“History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.”
Source: The Gateway to History
“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church
“History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.”
“History is never really about the past. The past, for us, is present. And history is for us, the living.”
“History is never surprising after it happens.”
Source: The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth
“History is no criminal court”
Source: The secret of world history: selected writings on the art and science of history
“History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.”
“History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.”
“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
Source: The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
“History is no more than memories refreshed.”
“History is not a bedtime story. It is a comprehensive engagement with often obscure documents and books no longer read—books shelved in old archives, and fragile pamphlets contemporaneous with the subject under study—all of which reflect a world view not ours.”
Source: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.”
Source: A Time In Rome
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
“History is not a determination of your future.”
“History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”
“History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.”
“History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.”
“History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.”
“History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced”
“History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.”
“History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.”
Source: Voss
“History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.”
“History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.”
“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
“History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.”
Source: The Matrix
“History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.”
Source: Prisoner of Peace
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”
“History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.”
“History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.”
“History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty