Quebecers have rarely in their history been better represented than they are right now-at the highest levels of the federal government. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang. — Daniel Morgan Copy Share Image
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards,… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian’s time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Vast historical changes in the last 500 years in the West have slowly created a world in which the individual is commonly… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as… — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research… — Roger Miret Copy Share Image
“All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just… — Austin V. Songer Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history -… — Gilbert Baker Copy Share Image
Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“And in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the Dark Ages, was the one path across the Dark… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice… — Arthur Manuel Copy Share Image
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy… — New York Times April 19 1865 Copy Share Image
In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his… — Lamar Waldron Copy Share Image
My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image