Quotes for History

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Sally Ride

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

Marianne Williamson

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B. R. Ambedkar

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Pablo Picasso

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Elie Wiesel

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M. Nixon

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

David Hogg

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Martin Rees

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Richard M. Nixon

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

Peggy Noonan

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Robert Kiyosaki

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

Nancy Pelosi

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere