“The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Weapons cannot buy peace, but they can help us to not repeat history.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not observed in history that families improve with time. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there is a long history of union bosses using money from American workers for lavish personal expenses. This corruption is unacceptable… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster? — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can… — Cynthia A. Patterson Copy Share Image
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment,… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“The nature of history itself defies us. To know with certainty what the last Dragon Emperor thought or planned or schemed would… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.” — William J Federer Copy Share Image
“History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.” — Patrick Lane Copy Share Image
