So I'm working on another historical novel. This one's a Franco-New Zealand novel, and it takes place at the time of the… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never… — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
The history of colonialism is long and bloody. And it continues today, in the shape of Western arrogance vis-à-vis everyone else. "Us… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose… — Emily Gowor Copy Share Image
“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“God, or to put it better, our idea of God, is a concept before anything else. The way God had been (mainly)… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Blanqui is an important, if neglected, nineteenth-century theorist, for unlike nearly all of his contemporaries, he dismissed the naive belief, central to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice, they also… — Henry Phillips Copy Share Image
Throughout Manchester United's history, we always come up with answers to problems. Big stars come and go, but still, the team keep… — Park Ji-sung Copy Share Image
I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I… — James Spader Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we must teach and learn from our history and swear never to repeat it, but we cannot use… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
“I’d never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.… — Joanna Wylde Copy Share Image
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I swear to you, any question you can have about moves, psychology, gimmicks, the history of Pro Wrestling, he knows. Lance Storm… — Laurel Van Ness Copy Share Image
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
“There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. (1958 Rolls-Royce print ad - sometimes… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even” — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“In a spookily prophetic letter, Pearl Payne had once written, “My history is unusual and may be of interest to medical men… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“These,” he said gravely, “are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“The history of salvation does away with any personal glory ... in Christ, we have the exclusion of all human merit.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image