Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The BBC's flagship natural history programme, was first shown in 1977, with The Bird That Beat The US Navy.” — Gareth Huw Davies Copy Share Image
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
Bottom line - American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“Communism is a utopian view of history, because the impossible is necessary for its realization. In essence, this requires a high level… — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions… — Stephan Delbos Copy Share Image
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The new, alien string of letters had no illustration. No etymology. No pronunciation guide, even. It was just a hard-hearted, ungenerous little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is… — Charles Kellogg Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history… — Usher Copy Share Image
“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself,… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it… — Deborah Kampmeier Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Blackfeet have our own versions of the traumatic history that we collectively still feel. And it's just an ethos in my people… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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