A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history.… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
“One of the first books of travel, giving European readers some insight into the unfamiliar world of the Orient, was published in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“...Mirek rewrote history just like the Communist Party, like all political parties, like all peoples, like mankind. They shout that they want… — Milan Kundra Copy Share Image
I do think that in many cases, where crimes have been covered up and perpetrators can escape justice, history can provide some… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“I would say that my ideal of writing history is to give the reader vicarious experience. You’re born in one particular century… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Salvation is no supernatural or extraterrestrial phenomenon, though, throughout history it is seen mostly as something supernatural and mystical. Salvation simply means… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,'… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I'm a blue-collar kid who went on to become a successful entrepreneur. I was the youngest CEO in the history of the… — John Delaney Copy Share Image
Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many… — Thomas Harriot Copy Share Image
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“It’s as though not even that most basic level of imaginative thought had been admitted into consciousness to cause the slightest disturbance.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“We tried to make the prosaic attractive without using the tired clichés of false glamour. You might say we tried to convey… — John Clifford Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Spread your arms out to your sides, like a plane. Your wingspan is a timeline. Your left fingertip represents the time of… — Dale McGowan Copy Share Image
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility that an entire episode in the story of mankind… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
