“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The great historian of religion Martin Marty once said every religion serves two functions: First, it is a message of personal salvation… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its… — Barbora Jiřincová Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“…I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
“Deeply ingrained in the Christian tradition, as in the Jewish and Muslim faiths, is the concept of a God who intervenes in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
“the entire history of our family has played out in the fields and villages stretching away beneath that fell, between Lake District… — James Rebanks Copy Share Image
“My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It inspires a bit of awe to see working dogs really do their jobs, to see thousands of years of history, instinct,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don’t let your history interfere… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“The Women’s March was the biggest single protest in American history. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities like New York,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I would say the first concert I ever went to is my earliest memory. I was four and already obsessed with Michael… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking… — Moby Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“Can't you see,Jimmy?It's not a war about our freedom,it's a power struggle between rulers and bosses wanting more land,more power.The likes of… — Janet MacLeod Trotter Copy Share Image
I guess its better then a suicide note? Once my father was joking and laughing about people who killed their selves. Dad… — Jade Copy Share Image
The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
“No, the Bible stands all alone, by itself, and there is not one other book which could share its glory. It is… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
“Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?" Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit… — after battle of Manzikert Alp Arslan Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay… — Susan Brigden Copy Share Image