Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“I told him that neither he nor anyone else should ever underestimate the strength and power of the United States: those who… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense.… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press.… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
“Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the… — Kate Scott Copy Share Image
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Too often in its history the church confused Christ and Caesar. Jesus became a tool of violence and oppression: the cross became… — Bruce G. Epperly Copy Share Image
“The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an… — Issac Marion Copy Share Image
I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,… — Bono Copy Share Image
The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“So this was all which these Pharisees and Scribes could see in the miracle of Christ's feeding the Multitude--that it had not… — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“They were altering history, redefining the boundaries of global health and children's advocacy. Many would later realize that working for someone like… — Adam Fifield Copy Share Image
“again…History shows that revival begins with the Christians being brought to their knees. It is a flood of deep conviction, purging and… — Andrew Strom Copy Share Image
“a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did. This. Right… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every revival in history seems to be the result of a few people becoming so hungry for God that they wanted Him… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
I like to watch 'The Office' over and over and over again. It's great, one of the best shows in the history… — Isabela Moner Copy Share Image
