It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with… — Livy Copy Share Image
Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironic that I am fascinated by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line… — Don Shula Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“This so-called culture war, I suspect, is the product of a history in which white America took two different paths to civilization.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send… — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“maybe you can tell me what the history books got wrong." I nodded, speech centers of my brain overridden by the same… — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them;… — Caspar Friedrich Wolff Copy Share Image
When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston, there's a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
There is no moral high ground from which President Trump or any of his followers can tell anyone to leave this country,… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I think three debates [primary debates] is the right number. I think that, uh, they'll be extremely well watched. There are those… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image