Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of… — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Our forefathers paved the way for us. Let's take their values and their strengths and rededicate ourselves to doing whatever it takes… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
“Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its… — Susan Mann Copy Share Image
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner'… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“We’ve reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Anything you care about, from vacation plans to exercise to the best Ethiopian restaurant, is going to be guided by your individual… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“And he said... ...open a book full of empty pages before you and you will see your life unfold before your eyes.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments. — George Will Copy Share Image
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
We're really focused on being 'of no time.' We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
“Let me guess---Nathan," he said with a bitter laugh. "It has to be Nathan. Christ, he told me day one that he… — Alicia Thompson Copy Share Image
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment,… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“Check out the book trailer for Gatehaven, my Christian Gothic historical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRa4h1... ” — Molly Noble Bull Copy Share Image
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
