“History is who we are right now. I mean, just because a chapter of life is over, it isn't gone...(Page 303)” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And… — Aanchal Malhotra Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Castine predates the Plymouth Colony by 7 years and, being one of the oldest settlements in America, has a rich history. Founded… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“...it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?” — James Broughton Copy Share Image
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.” — Raleigh Trevelyan Copy Share Image
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement.… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.” - Stephen Colbert” — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American… — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
