I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you… — Tyler Kent White Copy Share Image
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
Thats simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life… — Br0k3n_h3Art Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in… — Ferenc Madl Copy Share Image
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems.… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'. — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Initiating change is not about the multitude; it’s about the audacity of a few, for history attests that the course of humanity… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I'm not really interested in religion or history or science or mathematics or psychology or politics or geography. I feel I am… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler.… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
“Honesty is not making excuses for yourself, an abusive partner, or a country that has less than a stellar history. It means… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
