I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
“Because what if you did let someone in? And what if they saw everything, and still walked away? Who could blame them—who… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
“Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Your name?" George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“The farther you get from the actual historical person of Jesus and His time, the more the church knows about Jesus and… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe that history holds easy answers or simple lessons, because those answers and lessons are stretched out over thousands—millions—of untold… — Jennifer Latham Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We’ve reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay,… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
In China, the rich enslaved the poor, and in England and Scotland and all over the world, one person, through his power… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner'… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The future is female right now in the Republican Party. Kellyanne Conway just ran the first successful presidential race in history as… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
