Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

History is not made of up major media headlines and daily blogs and attacks.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

The historian is a prophet looking bzckwards.

It's always a fun game to go back and guess what long-past people would think.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

I grew up loving history.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

History is full of surprises.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

History! Read it and weep!

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.