What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
I have a history of it in the family - my uncle on my dad's side had schizophrenia, and my mom's brother… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
“We in the West are the first generation in human history in which the mass of the population has to deliberately exercise… — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
My awakening to the fight for women's votes came when I was 13, and the BBC screened a drama called 'Shoulder to… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle! — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history. — James May Copy Share Image
I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made. — George Takei Copy Share Image
“whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn’t want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Copy Share Image
Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
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