“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
Thats simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life… — Br0k3n_h3Art Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I thought I had joined one of the best clubs in the world, one of the biggest names around, and I had,… — Pepe Reina Copy Share Image
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis,… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I think Jose Aldo is a great fighter, has a great history, no one can deny that, but many people think I… — Patricio Freire Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
“No matter where you went—no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape—there… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
My awakening to the fight for women's votes came when I was 13, and the BBC screened a drama called 'Shoulder to… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I think a lot about the might-have-beens, the what-ifs. About the little places in history where one tiny, minute change can lead… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
