The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We got two examples in recent history from this country. One in the '80s under President Reagan. One under President Clinton and… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is… — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
I liked it. Im not gay but this girl was pretty hot and we danced all over the place. I was facing… — Jade Copy Share Image
What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
And Dale Jr., Dale's son, and Dale and I all raced to the checkered - were racing toward the checkered, which would… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and… — Richard Hornby Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“at 378 parts per million, current CO2 levels are unprecedented in recent geological history. (The previous high, of 299 parts per million,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a… — Kristanna Loken Copy Share Image
“[...] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington… — Thomas Kail Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
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