“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
Recent history shows that leaders in both parties are fanatics on the topic of immigration, and they cannot be trusted to effectively… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
“What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
More than just a sobering history lesson, 'Angry Birds' is a beautiful game. It's absolutely lovely. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“My name is surrounded with such hate and fear that no one can judge what is the truth and what is false,… — Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg Copy Share Image
At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
What happened today is an event, tomorrow it becomes story while it is called history for future reference — Emmanuel Olukwu Nwole Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest… — Sheryl Lee Copy Share Image
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“I know immediately that this is going to be one of the true historic moments of my life - that the personal… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Personally, it doesn't matter to me if I had the worst career stats in N.B.A. history as long as I got my… — Rasheed Wallace Copy Share Image
I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Celtic and Ajax are great names in history. They both have great followings all over the world, not just in Holland and… — Edwin van der Sar Copy Share Image
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Instead of a priority, you made me an option. So now you're history, lost and forgotten. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised to make history. In high school and family, no one around me was politically involved, and few of my… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
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