It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I really get up every day and try to deal with the problems that are in front of me, and I don't… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that… — Timothy Venning Copy Share Image
The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave. — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
The question of changing the name must not be taboo. The Front National is a name that has a strong history. It… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Although no one can go back and make an brand new start anyone can start a new begining and make sure you… — A New Start Copy Share Image
We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our… — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
“We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That’s why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us,… — Steve Porcaro Copy Share Image
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test.. or whatever.. I'd get this good feeling about… — Pursuit of Happyness Copy Share Image
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image