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History Quotes

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

History Man Surrender Intellectual

Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.

Good History Woman World Moments

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

Laura Hillenbrand

History Writing Sick Plan Backwards

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

History Slavery Something Us Affects

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Science History Thought Literature

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

History Romantic Tradition Organic

Why climb? That's a question that baffles me. It perplexes me. I really asked that a lot on Everest. I can't justify it. I can't say it's for a good cause. All I can say is look at the history of exploration: it's full of vainglorious pursuits.

Good History Me Climb Look I Can

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Brenton Thwaites

History School Theatre Drama Almost

I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.

Life Home History I Am Better She

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History Events Bring Just Interpret

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

History Art People Looks Who Works

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

Music History Bridges Years Many

History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.

History Brave Door Dangerous Need

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

History Society Free Tyranny Human

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

History Will Turn Out False Truths

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

History People Black Oregon Wanting

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

John Edgar Wideman

Faith History Great Struggle People

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

Allison Schroeder

Change History View You New Way

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Family History Looking Strong You

I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael Jackson. We were living in Munich at the time. My mom, being the best person ever, somehow managed to get us two tickets to the '97 Michael Jackson History World Tour.

History Time Best Memory Mom World

'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

History Kid Got Show Known Part

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

Future Live History You Build Got

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

History Responsibility Conscience Out

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

History Culture Thought Guitar Rock

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