“The most glorious battles in history are those with the biggest number of dead. As if we pay tribute to death and… — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins? — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“And so begins the strangest campaign in military history : a competent general and a seasoned army of eighty thousand men chased… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“Full confession: I am not dispassionate and unbiased. I didn't come to genetic genealogy services to be underwhelmed or go back to… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“One other important footnote to history: On Sunday, March 16, the same day that JP Morgan Chase announced its purchase of Bear… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I'm watching 'Night… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
I did not think twice when the offer from England came because it was always a professional goal of mine. I want… — Richarlison Copy Share Image
“Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn." "I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now." Luke & Jaina” — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The… — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
“The baggage we carry isn't a bad thing; it is our substance, our history, the experiences that make us who we are.” — Sophie Cousens Copy Share Image
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A great demand today is that work should be interesting. This is a recent development in human history, and workers in field… — George Watson Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like… — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
I can't forget that those who followed me tried to destroy me. We left them the greatest Barca in the club's history… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
“Too much of our history will seem to have taken place in the halls of capitols, where the accusers have mostly been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
