A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
We're really focused on being 'of no time.' We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
“Check out the book trailer for Gatehaven, my Christian Gothic historical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRa4h1... ” — Molly Noble Bull Copy Share Image
“Let me guess---Nathan," he said with a bitter laugh. "It has to be Nathan. Christ, he told me day one that he… — Alicia Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before… — Melina Matsoukas Copy Share Image
Jade you swear to secrecy for the sake of our kind? I cleared my throat. Yes. The ground feeling rough under my… — Jade Copy Share Image
And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to… — Dean Graziosi Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“People had no sense of history, they learned about chemistry and biology and astronomy and thought that these matters had always been… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment,… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
“Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians.… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
One thing I've noticed about history - you can search on newspapers going back hundreds of years, search for 'economic forecast,' you… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Be in the relentless pursuit of ideas that will outlive you. Who would have known who Steve Biko was if he was… — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history,… — Nelson Rockefeller Copy Share Image
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