The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
History Quotes
Carlyle leads by count, with Yuval Noah Harari, Will Durant and Isaac Asimov close behind. The sourced picks include Karl Popper’s claim in The Open Society (1945) that there is no history of mankind, only many histories of aspects of human life, and Oscar Wilde’s line from 1891 that anybody can make history but only a great man can write it.
The Churchill line “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” is flagged as misattributed. What the notes give is his House of Commons speech of 23 January 1948, in which he proposed to leave the past to history, especially as he intended to write that history. A line on Anglo-Irish history credited to Shaw is flagged too, and the notes record the more common, punchier version of it.
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
Racism stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of human history.
Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties.
I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
If I believe any man in history can beat me, I'm not gonna be the fighter I think I'm gonna be.
Our histories are inevitably braided together with our futures.