History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth,… — David Drake Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy,… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same… — Manu Ginobili Copy Share Image
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are… — Roh Moo-hyun Copy Share Image
“I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past,… — Gerard Donovan Copy Share Image
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the machines slowly rebuilding with recent history, having been wiped completely during the uprising. Access” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystrey, today is present, thats why they call it a gift — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.” — Bob Massie Copy Share Image
“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.” — Michael J. Lansing Copy Share Image
Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced. — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
“just as the New Testament portrays the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as the shape of God’s activity in history, thus… — David Schnasa Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Historically, I'm not a great patient when it comes to slowing down. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image