The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast… — Vhils Copy Share Image
“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's a really fine line between artistic license and artistic licentiousness. And history is a lousy filmmaker. It doesn't give you all… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. . . .… — Seth Farber Copy Share Image
“History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My dad is a fan of football, too, and did a good job of making me understand the history of football. — Saquon Barkley Copy Share Image
What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world. — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
