If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Most of all I enjoy central-heating control rooms, where men with higher education, chained to their jobs like dogs to their kennels,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Koran is just God's unaltered word. They like… — Gerd R. Puin Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
I am always interested in affecting people in some way, making them think about particular areas of history that they have never… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
“she quickly hired a housekeeper and a kitchen staff for the White House and then threw herself into what mattered far more… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“In art, in history man fights his fears, he wants to live forever, he is afraid of death, he wants to work… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I wish we could sit together around the fire and tell one another the story of WOMAN, recounting the ceremonies of reverence… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“We pursue our own solitary passions and seldom look up, seldom sense that it is we ourselves who form the swelling flood… — Thomas A. Day Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“But unlike the apologists who struggle to make historical sense of Mark’s scenario, we really don’t need to waste much speculation trying… — David Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We’re wrecking the planet. We’re never short of good… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Women are not unwinnable for Republicans. Ronald Reagan won a majority of them in both of his elections, and by 10 points… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
I hadn't seen 'The Devils' until about two months before we started writing 'Apostle.' It would always play in documentaries about extreme… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
I love this phrase called 'experiential monument.' What is an experiential monument? It's like a type of history that is experiential, that… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
![“Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the…” quote by Jim Al-Khalili](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/342/jim-al-khalili-25557_british-museum_many-historians-regard-him-offa-as-the-m_413618.jpg)
