“Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.” — Anne Burack Sayre Copy Share Image
I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.” — Sam Wineburg Copy Share Image
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“New technology has never been an automatic feature of history. Our ancestors lived in static, zero-sum societies where success meant seizing things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes,… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone get away with the argument that tearing our country out of one of the most successful partnerships in… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Shut my eyes and when I can hear our breathing go in sync I dirft into sleep. Chapter 5 -Dirty secrets and… — Jade Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hulk will always be a part of sports entertainment/professional wrestling history, and there's nothing that's gonna change that. His relationship with the… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
“The number of his wives is uncertain. Abulfeda, who writes with more caution than other of the Arabian historians, limits it to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
“History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history. — Peter Saunders Copy Share Image
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...what are they but the voice of history multiplied by millions of televisions?” — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
“The history of our desires is the is the story of how we lose ourselves to them.” — Tiffany Watt Smith Copy Share Image
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
