“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They're passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“Nor was Israel’s historic claim to the land impressive; to Cullinane it was irrelevant. Once a man started opening the historical-rights barrel… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
As soon as Liverpool declared their interest in signing me, it was a simple decision to make. A club with Liverpool's history… — Fabinho Copy Share Image
“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time:… — Randolph Crowley Copy Share Image
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the… — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Copy Share Image
“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There are persons who leave an indelible impression in the history of the world. They make it compulsory for the future generations… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know… — Jean-Luc Bilodeau Copy Share Image
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
“Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
“connections. For instance, the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) suggests that students engage in the deepest “historical thinking” when… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
'She's my kinda rain like love from a drunken sky, confetti fallin' down all night, she's the sunset shadow, she's like rembradt's… — Tim Mcgraw Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image