“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the… — Richard Ashby Wilson Copy Share Image
“Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The history of Unix should have prepared us for what we’re learning from Linux (and what I’ve verified experimentally on a smaller… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the… — Emil Theodor Kocher Copy Share Image
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Within time, you get comfortable with yourself and with the unknown - that we're not going to know until that time comes.… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history,… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“Is it too late, even at this stage in human history? No, it’s not too late, until, as Casey Stengel might say,… — John Price Copy Share Image
I cannot write history unless I travel to the places where it happened. I spent a lot of time walking around the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Kids don't want stand-ins on parents' weekend, no matter how much they might love those stand-ins. They don't want stand-ins to talk… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each… — Walter Parker Stacy Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
“Yet,in this same moment near the end of America,it is hard to imagine a current Congressman,Senator or cabinet member who would go… — Donald Charles Davis Copy Share Image
