Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean… — Aimee Friedman Copy Share Image
“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a… — Diora Baird Copy Share Image
“The main reason why serious historical studies of the Rosicrucian manifestos and their influence have hitherto been on the whole lacking is… — Frances A. Yates Copy Share Image
If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“A complete history of sexual scandal in Washington will probably never be written, because the public does not want to read a… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Because this is the other thing about immigrants ('fugees, émigrés, travellers): they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer. — John Mott Copy Share Image
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
The Rhodes in WWE have a wonderful history. I'm glad they let me go. They are the house that built me, and… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“What you call the history of mankind is the history of my escape plan. I don’t want ‘love.’ I don’t want forgiveness.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Everybody knows my history and Prochazka's history. He's an aggressive and unpredictable guy, you don't know where the strikes are coming. — Alex Pereira Copy Share Image
Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't. — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image