“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures;… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement.… — Don Simpson Copy Share Image
“Danäe believed not a wisp or whiff of the forerunner’s history, whose fame was incanted in his name, Andracos Dranias, and his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The Milliken decision was pivotal in the postwar history of race relations, for it badly hurt whatever hopes reformers still maintained of… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Initially I objected to the Data makeup. I said, "Why do I need this makeup? Why can't I just look like me?"… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product… — David Shenk Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Never mind that British history is liberally dotted with ethnic minorities; to most scriptwriters they simply don't exist. — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling… — Michael Bobelian Copy Share Image
There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“THE FACE OF HISTORY is not in the well-preserved faces of the famous, but in the remains of those who lived in… — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason. — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.” — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
