For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I take a sheet of paper from he stack and run my fingers over its surface. It's smooth, because it's never been… — Will Hill Copy Share Image
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the history between me and Man United wasn't successful. I didn't want it like that. — Memphis Depay Copy Share Image
It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves” — ben elton Copy Share Image
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed… — John Pile Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the… — G. B. Caird Copy Share Image
“Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one… — Spook Country William Gibson Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
