A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always say that countries that keep women in the backseat will always end up on the wrong side of history. — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Life happens once for us, so let's use it beautifully, and make all it's beauties and hardship, a history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and… — Ahmed Farrag Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
“And for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I also do not begrudge Hochschild his millions, although, unlike him, I have untold praise for the capitalist system that produced them… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.” — Emily Lawless Copy Share Image
That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival… — David Helvarg Copy Share Image
“If somebody is telling you there is one history, one people & one version of events, you should consider what side of… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history?… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
Joe Biden is the worst president of my lifetime and might just be the worst president in American history. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I want to fight Joshua. We've got history: this would be the third time. He's won one, I've won one. This would… — Dillian Whyte Copy Share Image
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. — Tom Osborne Copy Share Image
“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests -… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own. — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
