A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
For all of our history, it has been an article of faith that we in America bestow unto our children and grandchildren… — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Larry is slowly, softly almost laughing, like not quite trying to throw up, and Mayn finds history right there.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Souls flow through history like a river in time, and in that river i have recently come to believe, some may be… — Solace the Lessor Copy Share Image
Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
History suggests that the opportunity to run again for the presidency four years after losing is reserved for those who exceeded expectations… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“There are people who merely see what is. And there are people who look beyond what is. There are those who swim… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Throughout history there has been no single instance where a people, once become Moslem, has ever abandoned the faith.” — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that… — Timothy Venning Copy Share Image
Learning history is so easy but Making history is so difficult Make a history of yourself and Make others to learn it — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's… — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film. — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
I really get up every day and try to deal with the problems that are in front of me, and I don't… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The question of changing the name must not be taboo. The Front National is a name that has a strong history. It… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Although no one can go back and make an brand new start anyone can start a new begining and make sure you… — A New Start Copy Share Image
This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian, and those who are against it can leave. — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image