it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery.… — Will Shortz Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“...the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer's growth, dancing past the withered flower borders… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think… — Aarti Sequeira Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us.… — Clara Fraser Copy Share Image
“President Bo Haydn was bent over the Resolute desk, snoring gently with the tip of his nose submerged in a half-eaten bowl… — James Allen Moseley Copy Share Image
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper! — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
