Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case,… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But time is like that, it’s a bitter acquaintance that no matter how hard one tries to fight it one can’t. One… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
“Očevidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti leđima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
“On February 23, 1945, one of the most famous photographs in American history was taken atop Mount Suribachi, as five American soldiers… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, it's not clear whether or not it's smart for a 17-year-old to enroll in college.… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
“Wilmington, Del. (AP) June 14, 1966—A fire that destroyed the city’s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel. And the skeleton of a house can… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in… — Adrien Broner Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
“My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison,… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history. — Grigor Dimitrov Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
