I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it… — Kasper Schmeichel Copy Share Image
General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
HISTORY OF PAST AND HOPE OF FUTURE WILL ALWAYS DEPENDS ON THE ACT OF PRESENT, SO BE FAST AND QUICK DON'T WASTE… — Nik Copy Share Image
“Without definitive expulsion of all the whites, violence would erupt again; it was just a matter of time. History had demonstrated graphically… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“four different operators in that unit, working on a shift system, each with his own characteristics,” says Nigel West, a British military… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history… — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was definitely not the salary that made me join Manchester United; I went for football reasons - for the history of… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
“Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too -… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu has a really long and rich history in MMA, but compared to the past, jiu-jitsu is not as important as it… — Alexander Volkov Copy Share Image
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
It was an embarrassment for me to be there, and for somebody to celebrate it, oh my God. I want to go… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down.… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“A good lawyer has a grasp of what yesterday teaches us about today and tomorrow, and knows that the real meaning of… — Sol M. Linowitz Copy Share Image
“A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own--… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
