For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air… — Saeb Erekat Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others’. This… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me,… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Look back at history,” he said, after a minute or two. “Most great and remarkable men weren't tame or politically correct. They… — Elizabeth Nicole Copy Share Image
“... between the Great Swirl and the Two Screen, between the back-and-forth and the endless curve that will come of it--as between… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We knew that bringing a level of entertainment value to the subject of history was the key to our success. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation… — Frederick Russell Burnham Copy Share Image
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Ima turn u out, girl u gonna remember me, tonight it's going down as the best night in history, instead of making… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
“The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
