History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Bayern are a club where success is demanded, and second place isn't particularly appreciated. We have a history and culture to respect. — Manuel Neuer Copy Share Image
You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Curators and archivists at local museums can play a significant role in bringing this difficult history home, a commitment that is sometimes… — Paulette Regan Copy Share Image
The March on Washington was a defining moment in the history of this country and a great example of our nation truly… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious experience for the children to travel by rail and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
“This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
“Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art,… — Sharon E. McKay Copy Share Image
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“The actions of a single person with access to the secrets of a major power have the potential to modify the course… — Sergei Kostin Copy Share Image
I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I think that the 'Danish Girl' has its wonderful place in our cinema history, and I'm so proud to be a part… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the history of sport in general, people stick around. Look at Shaun White and Lindsey Vonn just continue on, Olympic cycle… — Mirai Nagasu Copy Share Image
“If we can get this done, [Doom] is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking… — David Kushner Copy Share Image
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
“(In response to President Obama) "For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.” — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image