All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school.… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
You create history within yourself. You create history within your own family. You create your own legacy. Because I create history without… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
“The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must see that there is a qualitative difference between repression… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
“Europeans believe that culture is something they can grasp and touch because, for them, culture is comprised of objects, or remnants of… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player.… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
“History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important. Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I get that we live in a culture where political correctness is expected, especially in polite company, but we also cannot divorce… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“The weakness in the case for integration was that it ultimately rested on a critical mass of white people playing along, either… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image