“Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“retelling of India’s political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
I know there's been questions about-so how long does that continue-and we've now been very clear about that, that software updates to… — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization was responsible for a paradigm shift in history. It created the industrial and scientific revolutions that enabled the birth of… — Benjamin Fulford Copy Share Image
Darius your coming with me. Heath you and Dallas stay here with Jade. Heath nodded. Darius helped Stark carry Eric to the… — Jade Copy Share Image
Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“This attack is the greatest tragedy in human history,” Avasarala said. “They want the belt to rise up so they can hide… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I see history in Pentateuch. I see revealed truth in it. I see in it human holiness as much as divine inspiration.… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
“Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I need, therefore I dream. I take risks and sometimes I am hurt. But without risks there is no life. I have… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Eight months [after 9/11], after the most intensive international investigation in history, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
“But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak,… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image