“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Under this spell we were really startled by being suddenly confronted by a priestly form. A second glance revealed, however, only a… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
“In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It sucks to be an orphan. Now what do we do? What is Plan B? For us, the answer was to find… — Ross Meador Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Stark stops in the door way when he sees that I am awake. Then rushes over when I wince form trying to… — Jade Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Regional interests and loyalties are even stronger among Australians than among Americans - in that in social life they exist almost without… — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
“I use the word “man” loosely. A better description would be “the most beautiful specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens with a set… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The past is not another country; it is another life. The texture of daily living is different now than in the past,… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Willie didn't have a historian's respect for the victories at Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, and Midway. The stream of news as it burbled by… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“When the Department of Justice came in and found the school had a long history of black-on-Asian racial violence that school officials… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“Our history was by then nothing but rocks, some scratches in the dirt, some huts, fuzzy memories passed on carelessly from the… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I've got no problem with getting history wrong for a purpose - Shakespeare often got things wrong for a reason. But it's… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“We are lost; waiting tables at Denny's or forgetting ourselves stripping on poles, or working at a coffee shop misplaced in history… — Matthew Zorich Copy Share Image
“After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, I must conclude that the global bankers have only three possible cards… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world—in its dramatic as well as its quiet… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I'm black, yeah, but I'm just an actor, so everything I do doesn't have to be color-specific or specific to history. But… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
