I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“The families had chosen to seek refuge in the historic sanctuary and had hung a banner out front that read, “How can… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior… — James Cook Copy Share Image
But the thing about 'Narcos' is that in the end, evil does not prevail. In the end, ambition destroys everything that you… — Teresa Ruiz Copy Share Image
“One human can change the course of human history - all it takes is the right idea, at the right time, in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Stop and search has a controversial history and has not always been carried out professionally by individual officers. Liberal-minded people are right… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful.… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“Time has wings and it can fly . A second spent wastefully can never be regained, a minute spent wisely is memorable… — Adewale Osunsakin Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I left hurt because I think I fought hard to create a great history at Barcelona. I left with 23 titles in… — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history. — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
“Again, folks, you've been witness to one of the most seldom seen events in history... I'm Chicken Larson saying good night, sleep… — Jenn Cooksey Copy Share Image
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was… — Joe Greene Copy Share Image
We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
“Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.” — Adrien Rouquette Copy Share Image
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and… — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Trump is a turning point in America's history; everything's fun now. In fact, my only fear is dying from 'winning exhaustion.' — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
