“This is an embarrassing hole. History is the most important of the literary subarts.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
As much as I partied yes I was a virgin (the only innocence I had left). I didnt want this, not now… — Jade Copy Share Image
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
New Jersey has faced its own history of citizens demanding change and federal engagement in programs to address the needs of our… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
“As the English historian Marc Gold wrote in 1995, “The term animal rights is nothing more than a useful kind of shorthand… — Paul Waldau Copy Share Image
Black excellence is a thing. People - from Beyonce Knowles to Venus and Serena Williams to folks you haven't heard of -… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.'… — Deontay Wilder Copy Share Image
“History is not made every day because it takes extraordinary people to create history, who have an iron will and not afraid… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I do not know because I studied in my life…if all I need to know this in the geography of your body,in… — Danieltembo Copy Share Image
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Success isn't what others can see, but how you feel. It's living your truth and doing what makes you truly happy. That's… — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
“Brahma and Airavata Long ago in lands of golden sand Brahma turned to Saraswati and gently kissed her inked hand…” — Muse Copy Share Image
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
As Restoration Man, I am pretty obsessed by history, and the more people know about London's history the more they'll appreciate the… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's… — Mills E Godwin Copy Share Image
“...when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like… — Doug Collins Copy Share Image
