On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporating new knowledge while… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Nobody, nobody, perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than Bill Clinton. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
“Dreams have a long history of delivering messages. At the very least they have been considered meaningful and mysterious.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
“But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Religion knew the truth of metaphor and symbol for almost all of history until the past few hundred years, and especially until… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have either read or heard this truth, which the Americans should never forget: That the silence of historians is the surest… — Robert Yates George Clinton Samuel Bryan Copy Share Image
My history has been one of ups and downs. But thanks to God, I keep working, drawing from my life experiences songs… — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and… — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined. — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H. A. L. Fisher Copy Share Image
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
I work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Musical recording history is full of multi-racial collaborations and it is this cross-pollination that has created the magic of Ellington, Sinatra and… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
“What is called modern today, tomorrow will be history. What ever you allow to display, don't make of it a mystery.” — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all… — K.P. Kollenborn Copy Share Image
History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona — Alison Goodman Copy Share Image
“In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the… — William Webb Copy Share Image
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects. — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
“Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge… — Vivien Spitz Copy Share Image
“That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
