“The frown again. So much contained there in the flex of a few muscles. All of history, it sometimes seemed to me.… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A bard must know history so she does not repeat it. She tells the tales but is never part of them. She… — David Gaider Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat… — Mike G Copy Share Image
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I do think we're at a point in our history where almost all of the big, grand, challenges faced by the human… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“A book can be a time machine, the best travel agency, a history teacher, a friend you cried and laughed with; giving,… — Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris Copy Share Image
“It's finally happened; scientists claim to have discovered the very first person in history who doesn't like french fries. Just imagine the… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
“You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my family, there's a lot of history, so it gives our relationships a lot of dimension. Nothing is staged. — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
“we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and… — Bruce Ashford Copy Share Image
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
It puts a smile on my face to be compared to a legend. Year by year, as you play basketball, you've got… — Lebron James Copy Share Image
“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
For a man once called the Indian Obama by the historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha, the diminishing of Bihar chief minister… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars,… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Constantly referring to past wrongdoings can become a substitute for developing a deeper analysis of today's foreign-policy challenges, of understanding what is… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
