I'm here to make history. I'm not here to get punched in the face and be just another one. — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills? — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.” — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I don't think my election as Taoiseach actually made history - it just reflected it, reflected the enormous changes that had already… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is… — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.” — Megan Smolenyak Copy Share Image
We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world. — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.” — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
