The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“It was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
“time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its… — prashant Copy Share Image
“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall;… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Up to this point, it was rare for the mad to be distinguished from the poor, the homeless, the indigent, beggars, vagabonds,… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
“...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...” — Peggy Herbert Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I waI'm more aware of time. The element of time. nt people to know that the Nazis could… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Holdouts never go well. Just look at history. It always ends badly. It wouldn't be the best decision. I make a lot… — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic… — Scipio Africanus Copy Share Image
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed… — Mary-Rose MacColl Copy Share Image
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of… — David Christian Copy Share Image
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying… — David O. Sacks Copy Share Image
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
