The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship. — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a house has two histories. One that's less well known. One that people have an interest in keeping less well known.” — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures. — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“There are many lives and many years, and relatively few moments when those individual histories touch each other with real recognition.” — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O’Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence “firsting and lasting.” All over the continent,… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners,… — Hassanal Bolkiah Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I love histories. I love learning. I love books that talk about people who made a real impact on history, because it… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“throughout all of my histories I found no one I loved more than you. No one.” Rhode-” — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
