The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
“It's people like you who change history. People like me--we just let things happen to us.” — Margaret Peterson Haddix Copy Share Image
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. — Ralph Davis Copy Share Image
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record — Alfonso Soriano Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack… — Molière Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I think in the history of basketball, people get hired and people get fired, but the main thing is people enjoy their… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“It is no wonder that historians trace the birth of Western civilization to these jewels of the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean seas.… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Kids in my history class pulled out their cell phones and turned them on. I did the same, and as we all… — Laura McNeal Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost anybody from the past will hold views discordant with the present. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
“History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. — James R. Thompson Copy Share Image
Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm the only player in NBA history to be 10 for 10 in a game with at least four threes made. — Jared Dudley Copy Share Image
I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all. — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
