History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are… — Richard Handler Copy Share Image
At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we… — Mike Bidlo Copy Share Image
In Spain, we always talk about Madrid and Barca for the title and that is normal because they are the two teams… — Robert Pires Copy Share Image
“She thought, Ours is one of the epic loves of our generation. Possibly of all time. Who cares if no one sees… — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Drawing on the best modern scholarship, this book seeks to rescue the history of networks from the clutches of the conspiracy theorists,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The intriguing history of American applied toponymy includes a few notoriously unpopular sweeping decisions a year after President Benjamin Harrison created the… — Mark Monmonier Copy Share Image
“With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do,… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
“To demolish this basilica," the king said, " is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history;… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I wanted to know the history of meanness before being mean person so that my meanness also could be precedent — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“We should learn from history, but always look to the future, bearing in mind that our decisions will shape it.” — Alexander Stubb Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was… — Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Copy Share Image
I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Adrian G. Duplantier Copy Share Image
Personally, I have struggled with anxiety in my history, so I think maybe anxiety or worrying about the future came naturally. — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to… — Robert Dick Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don't blame me, blame history, he says, smiling. Such things happen. Falling in love has been recorded, or at least those words… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Women have always been the world's burden bearers. Ever since history began the great burden of the world's faith, its belief in… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Today is a sad day in Country music. We have lost another piece of history. George Jones was not only a good… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Lessons of History, a 104-page distillation of the major forces through history by Will and Ariel Durant,” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.” — Teruyo Nogami Copy Share Image
[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to… — Edward Victor Appleton Copy Share Image