“The revolution of 1917 is a revolution of trains. History proceeding in screams of cold metal. The tsar’s wheeled palace, shunted into… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing. — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I think bald guys have been notoriously cast as villains throughout history. — Anthony Carrigan Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“Historians are not by and large inclined to supernatural explanations, but they are addicted to a near equivalent - 'inevitability'.” — Eric Ives Copy Share Image
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The history of human achievement is, indeed,a record of what man can do by himself. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Our founding fathers understood that republics were vulnerable; they knew that “many republics in history, such as the Roman republic, had been… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
“Why is learning to talk easy while learning to write is difficult? The answer lies in our evolutionary history. Our ancestors have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
