"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Growing up as a little kid and being a Giants fan and wanting to play shortstop for the Giants and all that,… — Brandon Crawford Copy Share Image
This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Many in America, as one social historian wrote, 'believed implicitly that New York's social leaders went to bed in full evening dress,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land,… — Donald Horne Copy Share Image
“so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later.” Which is what many other failed companies… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great hotels, the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of history lessons back in the world beyond the manor, whenever World War II came up in the curriculum.… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
He gently kissed my neck an at first I enjoyed it. Until I thought of my dream.. I tensed up a little… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Every now and then there comes a moment in history when an individual not previously credited with any particular integrity is elevated… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The promise of a cost-free escape from history should have made me suspicious. But what ultimately made me question the “rising tide”… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reincarnation because there's an expert on this question, and he's Jesus of Nazareth. He's the only person in… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn't land a job in… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“These times, indeed all times, demand national political leaders who know not only our history but the history of the world and… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is fighting for working people, and he's fighting to restore the borders around this country that are the essential ingredient… — Stephen Miller Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“Malone's commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I am afraid, my friends, that the ugly chapters of genocides and the deep-rooted history of persecution in the Middle East will… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“Our task as historians is to make past conflicts live again; not to lament the verdict or to wish for a different… — A.J.P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
