“To assess the success of the Sistine, we must think in terms of its history, its prime architects, and its contemporary relevance.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
“My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation… — Livy Copy Share Image
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Michael’s generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“He had lived without her before. He could get over it! In a year or so he'd be able to walk straight… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries,… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
“History suggests consumers will adapt fast. In 20 years, miracle cures for the old will come from Japan, the best web apps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My emotions were like a crowd. Give ’em what they want. Barabbas or the J-man. There’s gonna be a crucifixion. Well, more… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In… — Thom Andersen Copy Share Image
A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon,… — Kelela Copy Share Image
“8) The fourth period in the history of indul gences, from the Council of Clermont (1095) to the Second Council of Lyons… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“But in Australia a model child is - I sasy it not without thankfulness - an unknown quantity. It may be that… — Ethel Turner Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“Nasser's ‘Arabism’ was thus almost unprecedented in Egypt's long history. Nasser did not even invent Arab nationalism as a political identity. The… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
“What can you possibly say about Rome? That it's eternal? That all roads lead to it? That it wasn't built in a… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
![“I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred…” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/00a/charles-darwin-507_babel_i-had-gradually-come-by-this-time-1839-0_1785401.jpg)
