Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.” — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families… — Billy Barty Copy Share Image
Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
From what I've learned about the history of the Jewish people, their survival against all odds, and the divine protection they've received,… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have… — John Larson Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I’ve ever seen in the history of literature. I have… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“The reasons why institutions fail and societies change are complex, and simplistic explanations should evoke automatic suspicion. Sometimes external causes - droughts,… — Thomas W. Africa Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical. — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“In the history of mankind, more human beings were killed in the name of religion than for any reason,” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“One difficulty is that we cannot always reconstruct the past thoughts of these non-Western peoples, for not all of them existed in… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS. — Lamar Hunt Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East,… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Any historian knows...that possibilities and history are connected. It's not simply our hard work, but that we lived in circumstances in which… — Mark Wallace Copy Share Image
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Julia’s attitude toward British food—that it was inedible, that it had little relevant history apart from being inedible, and that a more… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
