History Quotes

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

If you look back at the whole of our history, both Soviet and post-Soviet, it is a huge common grave and a blood bath.

But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts, I'm writing a history of human feelings.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.

There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.