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History Quotes (page 3)

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
Salman Rushdie quote: "History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could..."
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Salman Rushdie
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
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
Benjamin Netanyahu quote: "History has shown us time and again that what is right is not..."
History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular. Benjamin Netanyahu
John Sladek quote: "History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken"
History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken John Sladek
Leo Tolstoy quote: "History would be a wonderful thing? if it were only true."
History would be a wonderful thing? if it were only true. Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "History is written by the winners."
History is written by the winners. Napoleon Bonaparte
George H. Mead quote: "History is always the interpretation of the present"
History is always the interpretation of the present George H. Mead
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix..."
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. Chuck Palahniuk
Janet Flanner quote: "History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching..."
History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. Janet Flanner
Jodi Picoult quote: "History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped..."
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. Jodi Picoult
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter."
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter. Simone de Beauvoir

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