I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the… — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
I found you can believe the man in history that is Jesus who walked the earth. It's a whole different thing altogether… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
“when I turn from church history and examine myself, I find that I too am vulnerable to the Temptation. I lack the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
You have the right of youth to arbitrary, break someone's heart, or played with someone's feelings, or forced to sexually satisfaction from… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them… — Philibert Orry Copy Share Image
Much of India's Hindu-Muslim divisions can also be located in the context of history, fomented further by the politics of divide and… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")” — George Sterling Copy Share Image
What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
“There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful god zombie. Ryan O’Neal… — Kenny Powers Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Never once in the history of receiving good news has someone ever replied, “It’s okay. I understand.” Those words are reserved for… — Sandra L. Rostirolla Copy Share Image
“As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves… — Doug Glanville Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The alternative to systematic planning is decision-making based on history. This generally results in reactive management leading to crisis management, conflict management,… — Harold R. Kerzner Copy Share Image
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
“Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]” — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic,… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one… — Stephen Cohen Copy Share Image