“I was right about not being able to control my own surprises, but I was wrong about how good these surprises could… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Andres is a genius, and it's an honour to share the same dressing room. I hope to learn a lot from him.… — Philippe Coutinho Copy Share Image
“The themes of Jesus' teaching are important, but of course he was more than a teacher. All the Gospels put the end… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
“America at a turning point! But in 1813 the United States and Nathan Jeffries may lose everything; blockaded, imprisoned, raided, massacred, Americans… — Bert J. Hubinger Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Seemingly random events and movements and trends gather power and momentum, unseen for long periods of time, and then bursting to the… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“In time I told Clarissa the difficulties we had had escaping from the war zone. She warmed up to me as we… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every role that I do, I always leave subliminal love letters to women of color in the details. You can go back… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
“Easily he had turned studying my least favorite subject in history into my now most memorable one. Then there was his want… — Christina Marie Morales Copy Share Image
To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British,… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal… — Diane S. Sykes Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
“My mistress used to say that you couldn’t ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said: even if you’ve… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“For the first time in the US Forest Service's history, more than half the agency's annual appropriated budget was devoted to wildfires… — Edward Struzik Copy Share Image
“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image