I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way.… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“Evil? What is that? ...You said you were death itself. Are you evil, then, or are you simply stronger and more awake… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Once the individual has learned to dissociate in the context of trauma, he or she may subsequently transfer this response to other… — Julie P. Gentile Copy Share Image
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I would like to invest more of my brain space in understanding the history of my city, because whenever I learn about… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
One of the greatest own goals in modern British political history helped create one of the biggest political parties in the western… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in… — Geza Vermes Copy Share Image
“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless… — Oscar Handlin Copy Share Image
“Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich,… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“We’re at a crossroads in human history. The digital age has unearthed unprecedented access to information and connection, but it has also… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth .… — David Toscana Copy Share Image
“My basic hypothesis is this: the people who run the media are Humanities graduates with little understanding of science, who wear their… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real… — Edward Britton Copy Share Image
Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was… — Izabel Goulart Copy Share Image
“Logic is also the theory of knowledge of Marxism, but for quite another reason, because the forms themselves of the activity of… — Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal… — Molly Caldwell Crosby Copy Share Image
The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Can you tell the guys I'm sorry.. Yes ma'am sure can, would you like a escort? Yes. He stuck out his arm… — Jade Copy Share Image
You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
What's so bad about Google knowing I need Kleenex? Look at it in the aggregate - see how information... can be used… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image