I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history. — Fabio Cannavaro Copy Share Image
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical. — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“The role of the Filipino historian must be the role of all historians. There is, of course, [Filipino history], but as rule,… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I am a Roman,' he said to the king; 'my name is Gaius Mucius. I came here to kill you - my… — Livy Copy Share Image
“While the story of Jesus is indeed the key to history, to emphasize the Gospels over the rest of the New Testament… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history. — Graham Masterton Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,” — Heath White Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“The 'wheel of fortune' is a better analogy for history than the 'evolution of humanity.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image