People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century,… — Joseph M. Kyrillos Copy Share Image
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation… — Frederick Russell Burnham Copy Share Image
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it. — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan 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
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
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge 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
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds -… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.” — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the… — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe. — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image