Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians” — stephen fry Copy Share Image
Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change… — Gabriel Batistuta Copy Share Image
Today, we are fortunate that the historical novel has reached such extraordinary heights of technical mastery. The ability of society to connect… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all… — Rosalind Miles Copy Share Image
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century.… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
“The Greek historian Herodotus, writing over two thousand years ago, produced one of the first descriptions of one culture getting worked up… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet,… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
There is no existence without history, and there are few battles that mark it better than Frazier-Ali I. — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
I wish I could say that we Germans have learned from our history once and for all, but I cannot say that… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that has ever come from this technological era is the 'Clear History' option on computers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars,… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was Adam and Eve. Eve said to Adam, “You’ve got to try this apple,” and the first marketing… — Dave Kerpen Copy Share Image
I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
“To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down,… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
School's boring, history can be boring and often you forget they were like us, just with a few less things and probably… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In history we studied the bog man. Do you remember the bog man? I was absolutely fascinated by this. When something brings… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other.… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
What happened today is an events' tomorrow it becomes story while it becomes a history in future' for a new generation to… — Emmanuel Olukwu Nwole Copy Share Image
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