One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture. — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“If the words, But you’re a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.” — Laken Cane Copy Share Image
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than… — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
Celtic and Ajax are great names in history. They both have great followings all over the world, not just in Holland and… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The historical irony is that European Christians coming to the Americas were escaping highly stratified and intolerant societies; in North America they… — Steven Charleston Copy Share Image
It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image