Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When you decide that Black history is not a part of American history or when you decide that any book that talks… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“Writer William Mills in 1898 bluntly articulated that “The independence of Cuba is, therefore, an historical absurdity… Nothing but her complete incorporation… — Keith Bolender Copy Share Image
“A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning… — Owen Davies Copy Share Image
Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history.… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — R. Bosworth Smith Copy Share Image
“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people… — King Princess Copy Share Image
“Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story… — Virginia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“The reason for which Picasso was compelled to resort to signs and allegories should now be clear enough: his utter political helplessness… — Max Raphael Copy Share Image
“Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me. Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin history. No feelin… — TI Copy Share Image
“History is not an agreed-upon fiction but what gets made in a crowded room; what is said isn't what's heard, and what's… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
“Recurrent invasions racked the city of Theodora in the centuries of its history; no sooner was one enemy routed than another gained… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The work of Congress is not about my personal life, this is about delivering results for my constituents, finding bipartisan solutions, and… — George Santos Copy Share Image
“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Berossos compiled his History from the temple archives of Babylon (reputed to have contained "public records" that had been preserved for "over… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing.… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image