In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
History isn’t something you study. It’s something you should just know. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn't get a single complaint about… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
I voted Remain, but I also believe in democracy. The 2016 referendum was the largest popular vote in the U.K.'s history and… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
“Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“GOD IS SO WONDERFULLY GENEROUS in his self-disclosure. He has not revealed himself to this race of rebels in some stinting way,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back.… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
It is not observed in history that families improve with time. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Weapons cannot buy peace, but they can help us to not repeat history.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be. — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run. — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and take my name out of the history books so I would be a myth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
