Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together.… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
