That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
“Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed -… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island’s tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and… — Carl Russo Copy Share Image
My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before… — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
“In terms of literary history, the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 is seen as a landmark. The volume contains many of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Stop and search has a controversial history and has not always been carried out professionally by individual officers. Liberal-minded people are right… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
“Self-control has been credited with one of the greatest reductions of violence in history, the thirtyfold drop in homicide between medieval and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will… — Irene Nemirovsky Copy Share Image
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“The Ark disappeared from history’s pages in 597 BC, when the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon razed Jerusalem to the ground… — Dominic Selwood Copy Share Image
I'm very visual. So even for red carpets, I'll create mood boards. I love a good shared photo album and to tag… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seoul has many good tourism resources, including nature, history and people. To take advantage of these, we have to make efforts, to… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians," Roger ventured. "All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“It’s the microscopic parasite that causes malaria. Nearly half of all human deaths in recorded history have been caused by this invisible… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I… — Wade Barrett Copy Share Image
If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
