“According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important… — Jeffrey Herf Copy Share Image
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create… — Phyllis George Copy Share Image
I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history… — Shayna Baszler Copy Share Image
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“In its short history as a state, Alaska has earned an unnerving epithet: It is the rape capital of the U.S. At… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The point is that the resurrection, if it had occurred, would undermine not only the Enlightenment’s vision of a split world but… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
“Apparently, I was taking U.S. History again this year, which was the only history taught at Jackson, making the name redundant. I… — Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
“But you didn’t mention Orrigar I, the first king of the House of Chaldarina. He put an end to years of unrest… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State…And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“...history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
We can decide to kneel to the mob and kneel to the state, cede all of our power over to the federal… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“University of Otago social historian Hera Cook provides a beautiful illustration of exactly this point in her rich account of the sexual… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
“Zeus in his sphere of power, Aphrodite in hers, are irresistible. To be a god is to be totally absorbed in the… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I… — Deirdre Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed… — John Pile Copy Share Image
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it… — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once.… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Justification is an eschatological fact that has occurred in history. It means acquittal from the guilt of sin by a favorable decision… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image