I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all -… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The wives of Henry VIII are too big to be left to chick lit. Their importance is the impact they have on… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“This travelling was never about gaining merit or the absolution of sins. It was always the journey that mattered, and what these… — Charles Allen Copy Share Image
You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
When I was in France, I'd buy books about the history of the Cannes Film Festival, with all those images of the… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years,… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure. — Julius Randle Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You're not sure that you will have all the documents. That is why the conclusions in history is not final.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point. — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess — George Koltanowski Copy Share Image
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
