“His face was a study in concentration and empathy, as if every word I said was of supreme importance. It was that… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling… — Rudolph Herzog Copy Share Image
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Laughing,I poked him for his embarrassingly accurate imitation of my southern accent. He continued in my voice, "Then one day my boyfriend… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“What we call happiness is sometimes the accordance between our life and circumstances,our biography and history ,our personal aspirations and historical currents… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“We are all on the same road, some ahead of us and some behind. We do not always recognize ourselves as being… — Nell Gavin Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless history.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In the first summer of the Iraqi war, on the crabby, sweaty second day of a blackout that shut down the northeast’s… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“biblical theology by definition comes from the biblical text (or ought to), not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is,… — William James Copy Share Image
“He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
“These solo concerts were without precedent, not only in jazz history, but also in the entire history of the piano. They were… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice and Jasper could do. Maybe I would… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
As we celebrate Black History Month, let us remember how far we've come as a nation and honor the lives of patriotic… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
“If you survey healing throughout history and across contemporary cultures, and even within our own culture, you will encounter an extraordinary and… — Michael Heap Copy Share Image
“It was my mother, my frequent co-conspirator in the kitchen and my conduit to our past, who suggested the means to convey… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
“Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at… — Michael Krauss Copy Share Image
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“All I had left were her ashes and her clothes. I tried them all on locked in her bedroom. She had followed… — Riitta Klint Copy Share Image
Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“You’ve been handed a history where you got most of the land, made most of the money, got most of the presumptions… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
