“Irritation pricked at my skin, causing the glyphs to agitate restlessly across it. Apollo and I had a history—a very bad history.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“The theory is that immersion in the history of one's own group will overcome feelings of racial inferiority both by instilling pride… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Dealing as we are with the very first experiment in proletarian dictatorship in world history (and one taking place at that under… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“THE HUMAN COMMUNITY has reached a critical point in its history. The world today forces us to accept that humanity is one.… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“In an agricultural society, or during a time of exploration and settlement, or hunting and fathering--which is to say, most of mankind's… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Those things which we call extraordinary,remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do… — Joseph F Smith Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw painted this picture in 500 B.C. for the Mesolithic era was a period of transition more noteworthy for its important… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We’re wrecking the planet. We’re never short of good… — Jodi Taylor Copy Share Image
“When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is not a problem of the market form but of markets deformed - deformed by the long shadow of historical injustices… — Gary Chartier Copy Share Image
“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Why have two figures of such remarkable interest been so scanted by the annalists and historians, so overlooked by philosophers, poets, and… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must see that there is a qualitative difference between repression… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The gingko tree leans lazily against the facing wall or perhaps it supports it; Stephen cannot be sure. The dense ridges of… — Michael Tobert Copy Share Image
“At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Revisionist history can be a tricky thing. Time passes, memories fade, oral history muddies, and transgressions, while sometimes subconsciously, are conveniently rewritten.… — Yvette Manessis Corporon Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that he was a Confederate. Everyone in Gatlin County was related to the wrong side in the War Between the… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The feeling was a bit odd under the circumstances, but I was glad to be back at the Old Imperial. Windowless and… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Jesus Christ is the greatest man who has ever lived in all of history.He changed the world… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“From the Inquisition to the Gestapo and the “Battle of Algiers,” history teaches us that, in the production of reliable intelligence, regardless… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last… — Yan Xuetong Copy Share Image
“An ambitious freshman congresswoman demanded funding to put a public historian in every zip code in the country, a correction for what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Simply said, we have reached a moment in Western history when, despite all appearances, no meaningful public debate over belief and unbelief… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“In an agricultural society, or during a time of exploration and settlement, or hunting and fathering--which is to say, most of mankind's history--energetic boys were particularly prized for their strength, speed, and agility. [...] As recently as the 1950s, most families still had some kind of…” quote by Richard Louv](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/746/richard-louv-3583_children_in-an-agricultural-society-or-during-a-t_1860779.jpg)
![“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad…” quote by Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/756/thomas-hardy-410_history_sometimes-i-feel-i-don-t-want-to-know-an_2345820.jpg)
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
