All the love that history knows is said to be in every rose… yet all the love that can be found in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mrs Thatcher not only made history by becoming Britain's first female prime minister, she was the first woman to hold any comparable… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty.… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China. — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying I am obsessed with the "making history" thing. But it's what pushes me, it's what… — James DeGale Copy Share Image
“A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans."… — Isman H. Suryaman Copy Share Image
“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good: or if it records… — Bede Copy Share Image
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake. — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Max has earned all my respect, since I started fighting, before I got to the UFC. He is one of the best… — Yair Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Our relations - the United States and Canada, that trade relationship is vitally important. There's a long history. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster then any other human invention in history...with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.” — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
