History

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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

World history is tragic. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. – Harold Wilson

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. – Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. – Leigh Hunt

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. – Alphonse de Lamartine

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? – John Guare

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. – Andrew Weil

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things. – Stockwell Day

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence. – Lev Grossman

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. – Eric Alterman

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. – John Moody

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York. – Ron Chernow