I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of… — David Christian Copy Share Image
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to find anywhere in history a record of any other country going to such efforts, for so long,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Upcoming composers in Bollywood are falling prey to the volume game, without caring what they are doing to the history of Indian… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should)… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Christianity . . . does not [simply] stand in the history that we only know and which knowledge we take to ourselves… — Jacob Boehme Copy Share Image
History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“None of them were equipped, trained, or mentally prepared for combat. For the first time in recent history, American ground units had… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“The word logos itself is a prime example, beginning its history as a word charged with religious power, and referring to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster then any other human invention in history...with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.” — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
I think once a year it's good to look back at the history of Oscar and to embrace the great work that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish… — John Helm Copy Share Image
Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image