It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each… — Walter Parker Stacy Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Kids don't want stand-ins on parents' weekend, no matter how much they might love those stand-ins. They don't want stand-ins to talk… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I cannot write history unless I travel to the places where it happened. I spent a lot of time walking around the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“Is it too late, even at this stage in human history? No, it’s not too late, until, as Casey Stengel might say,… — John Price Copy Share Image
The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history,… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
“Yet,in this same moment near the end of America,it is hard to imagine a current Congressman,Senator or cabinet member who would go… — Donald Charles Davis Copy Share Image
You start out with scripts pre-written, with no specific actor in mind, so you've got to build a character on top of… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
“The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discoverable by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meaning re-defined… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm,… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the… — Carolyn McCarthy Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
“those content to serve mediocre employers will never know – the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one’s… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
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