History Quotes

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
Conrad Black

Successful, Media, Operator

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

Successful, Country, Why

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Bill Nighy

Experience, Help, Learn

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian

Die, Knowing, Looks

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes

Life, Experience, Literature

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
Hilary Mantel

Truth, Winning, Less

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
Hilary Mantel

Different, Turning, Points

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
Hilary Mantel

Time, Past, Behind

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel

Art, Lost, Down

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
Boris Becker

Change, Future, Working

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Family, Long, Corporate

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich

Truth, False, News

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo

Death, Someone, Lie

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

Time, Sad, Human

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns

Good, Past, Question

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
James Dyson

Thinking, Free, China

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
Erskine Bowles

Crisis, Together, Face

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
Emir Kusturica

Great, Art, Human

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
Mia Wasikowska

Love, Art, Study

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
A. N. Wilson

Time, Great, Morning

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

Crazy, Him, Why

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Russell Hoban

Human, Speak, Whole

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
Manuel Puig

Country, After, Write

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

Writing, Through, Trying

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage

Knowledge, Science, Chemistry

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