We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
When you tell a film financier that you want to do a Shakespeare film, their face drops. Shakespeare films don't have a… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be… — Harry Wilson Copy Share Image
I wish I had a better knowledge of history and the other things I could've learned. Of course, nothing is stopping me… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history. — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else’s. Respect it. Pay attention to… — David Sturt Copy Share Image
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I can't help the way I do things its already built in my subconscious.. or maybe I should Redefine the Way I… — Trevon Sherod Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change. — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to… — Rivaldo Copy Share Image
Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
“Every people has a past, but the dignity of a history comes when a community of scholars devotes itself to chronicling and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I snagged the biggest bandwagon in history. Just when the buffet stuff was running out, now I'm the 'Seinfeld' guy. Somebody up… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
