We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Upcoming composers in Bollywood are falling prey to the volume game, without caring what they are doing to the history of Indian… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to find anywhere in history a record of any other country going to such efforts, for so long,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments,… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“A moral cynicism was sapping the strength of our society, half-lies were not only condoned, but regarded as smart. Many had remained… — Abie Abraham Copy Share Image
Most all of my awards are at the Country Music Hall of Fame. You know we had the longest running exhibit in… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of… — Edinson Cavani Copy Share Image
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am the first model in the history of Victoria's Secret shows who walked the show wearing her TWA. Hence, I felt… — Maria Borges Copy Share Image
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Women are taking the main stage. They are center stage, and they're setting all these records and making history, and I want… — Nikki Bella Copy Share Image
There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history. — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is… — Peter Quennell Copy Share Image
“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I don't think that it's ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“Two phoenixes that had overcome the tragic ending written a long time ago, proving the history doesn’t always repeat itself.” — Kele Moon Copy Share Image
My cousin is Johnny Nash, 'I Can See Clearly Now' Johnny Nash. So I know what to do just by watching what… — Scarface Copy Share Image
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of… — David Gill Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Well, history always repeats itself, so there's probably a baby Shaq out there in a crib somewhere, sipping on a bottle, and… — Tristan Thompson Copy Share Image
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
