“Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
“This has to be one of the strangest standoffs in history. 'No, please, you air your grievances first.' 'No, no, I couldn’t… — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“Time for a history lesson, kids. Back in the olden days, when two clans were at war, they would send their noblemen… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age,… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Why is history uncontested here? There is no sight of that dispute over words, that battle over versions of stories that marks… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the… — Danail Hristov Copy Share Image
“Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was… — Joan Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Reagan’s easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.” — Michael Rogin Copy Share Image
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen… — Barry Silbert Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which… — Alice Muriel Williamson Copy Share Image
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
