“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“— I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“How many of us have read history, and shook our heads and puffed our chest, and said, “If I were alive during… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee.… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“I remember the late Admiral Saunders declaring in the House of Commons, and that in the time of peace, 'That the city… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
That is what I want to make clear today. A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The curtains were not yet drawn and with the moonlight spreading across the room, I could see clearly. I undressed and slipped… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“Some foreign diplomats believe the Middle East is weathering a historic intra-Islamic feud between its Sunni and Shiite sects that no outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When disagreement turns to enmity, the result is almost always moral blindness on all sides. History is distorted, collectivities are demeaned, theological… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
“Outside and inside, life and soul, appear as parallels in “case history” and “soul history.” A case history is a biography of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“It was no coincidence that the most spectacular and tragic terrorist attack carried out in the country's recent history occurred in the… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore.… — Patrick M. Byrne Copy Share Image
“History had already done the really messy work, when Wintermute found him, sifting him out of all of the war’s ripe detritus,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't… — Ezra Edelman Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“The USS Pargo, known for its participation in the search for the missing attack submarine USS Scorpion in 1968, was altered to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Professors have a lot of power.” I almost smiled. “Even medieval history professors?” “Especially medieval history professors,” he assured me. “Knights on… — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to describe as a culture what may simply be, after all, a history of oppression? That is, is this… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
