If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them. — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
“I identified historical hierarchical division of the arts into fine arts and craft as a major force in the marginalisation of women's… — Rozsika Parker Copy Share Image
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I'm not a guy who works only with the money. I'm not the guy who works on Wall Street. They think about… — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“History: *The owner noticed a soft, oozing mass on the head. *Mr. Snooze has been fighting with another cat recently. Assessment: *Mr.… — Marcy Blesy Copy Share Image
It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
There's an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past - that we've left the right footnotes, that we're doing the… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” Gerald… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
Some persons are talking about imaginary stories as history. One should not get fooled by believing them and they should not be… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Our history with Americans goes back over 80 years. They came here, they helped us harness our oil and gas, and we… — Khalid A. Al-Falih Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Fine,” he said. “You’re right. We’re not normal. We’re the most fucked-up, star-crossed lovers in history. So let’s not play nice.” — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“If a historian does not understand the bounds of the social space within which the events he is studying occurred, all he… — Eric John Copy Share Image
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Your 'just Google it' attitude will come back to haunt you when your internet search history is used against you in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the… — Gerd von Rundstedt Copy Share Image
“Stars have passed judgement over the most terrible of our failures and have been the proud witnesses of our grandest triumphs. They… — Taylor P. Davidson Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You… — Donald Dale Jackson Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, all of mankind’s disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
“We are all in the era that will be remembered by historians as the 'Silent Corporate Government War On Humanity” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From what I've learned about the history of the Jewish people, their survival against all odds, and the divine protection they've received,… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As has been the case throughout the history of terrorism, government anxiety centres on what to do about those against whom there… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
