Histories Quotes (page 3)

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• passion
• past
• history

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. Winston Churchill

• wellness
• history
• power

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Salman Rushdie

• wishes
• time
• history

History (that listof ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakesclutched like parachutes)is rolling itself up in your headat one end unrolling at the other. Margaret Atwood

• regret
• love
• forever

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings. Wendell Berry

• time
• history
• popular

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. Benjamin Netanyahu

• history
• trying
• try

History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken John Sladek

• history
• true
• wonder

History would be a wonderful thing? if it were only true. Leo Tolstoy

• world
• sky
• manly

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed. Thomas Carlyle

• religious
• free
• government

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Thomas Jefferson

• history
• written history
• written

History is written by the winners. Napoleon Bonaparte

• history
• interpreting
• interpret

History is always the interpretation of the present George H. Mead

• history
• brilliant
• brilliantly

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. Chuck Palahniuk

• history
• look
• watch

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. Janet Flanner

• memories
• history
• memorial

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. Jodi Picoult

• history
• lets
• holds

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter. Simone de Beauvoir