I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.” — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass. — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“And even though the resurrection of Jesus, by itself, is meaningless apart from the unfolding biblical drama that begins with creation and… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Though small, the shrine has a long history. In 1333—the Third Year of the Genko era—Lord Takeshigé Kikuchi ascended to it in… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I know a guy who writes on the show, it was his episode, and he called and said, "Would you do it?"… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
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