Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.” — Aziz Hamza Copy Share Image
“Well, I can agree with that,” Zaat said. “It is happening in other worlds and has happened throughout history, where the silent… — James Todd Cochrane Copy Share Image
America's history resides in the fields at Gettysburg National Military Park and in the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
“Part of seeing what is on an ordinary block is seeing that everything visible has a history. It arrived at the spot… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product.… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
“The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. On their blotter of fog the trees Seem a botanical drawing. Memories growing,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“Bush, it will go down in history, it’s unbelievable that guy was president. Unbelievable. I’m sure, I’m 100 percent sure, in one… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“The feeling was a bit odd under the circumstances, but I was glad to be back at the Old Imperial. Windowless and… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs… — Steven Raichlen Copy Share Image
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things. — John Clapham Copy Share Image
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
During Women's History Month, we celebrate milestones in gender equality, and we uplift the stories of women who have impacted our world… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period… — Hal Hershfield Copy Share Image
“It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.” — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Against Japan and any Asian teams, we've had good results, so I would say that history proves we are the best Asian… — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
So shut up, You know their name, not their history. You've heard what they've done, not what they've been through. so it's… — Uniique Styles Randxom Copy Share Image
As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. — Flea Copy Share Image