Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The history of the office of First Lady had not been kind to those with mental health issues. — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“We have no historical testimony to the development of polytheism into pure monotheism;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of… — Ralph Davis Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's a bunch of cities I'm not crazy about, but I love Chicago. I love the musical history - the mid-'90s indie… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion. — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
“Every theory of social action is ultimately a philosophy of history. It attempts, as best it may, to read in the experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I’ve been wondering something. Don’t take this the wrong way.” “Never in the history of humankind has a man ever managed to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Singers say ‘tradition’ when they don’t want to explain.” “It’s more than that.” Wik shook his head, struggling for patience. “It’s about… — Fran Wilde Copy Share Image
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
“Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.” — Victor Gischler Copy Share Image
In the history of the Premier League some of the most notable managerial departures have been English. — David James Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel Copy Share Image
