History Quotes - page 9
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
History is on the side of the regulators.
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
History, as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.