History : (94)

" I do not want to talk about the war, because I cannot change history. " - Phan Thi Kim Phuc

" History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. " - Mal Peet

" It’s a very good historical book about history. " - Dan Quayle

" I’m attracted to the past. " - Tom Stoppard

" France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man. " - Alfred de Vigny

" Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals – as Marx averred – is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he. " - Will Self

" In international basketball, these cups in the middle of the season are big. They mean something. And then history happens and it’s important. " - Domantas Sabonis

" Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I’m willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. " - Rick Perlstein

" The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. " - Simone Weil

" Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart. " - Jill Lepore