More quotations tagged with “history”
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
—Steve Maraboli
History develops, art stands still.
—E. M. Forster
As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
—Oscar Wilde
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
—Winston Churchill
Some people make headlines while others make history.
—Philip Elmer-DeWitt