I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
There's a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us,… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t be the first person in Silicon Valley history to interview at a company at which I didn’t really want a… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Yesterday was a dark day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity. After receiving the news, I followed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a… — Ernst von Salomon Copy Share Image
There are times throughout history and it doesn't take long for either an American or a German, to think about times in… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents. — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_education3.htmlgqDWEHxuOJyvI5s2.99 — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever… — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Maps of the world are whitewashed, history of the world is whitewashed, ethics of the world are whitewashed, knowledge of the world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you enter a sport, you'd rather reflect on competing against people who are considered the best in history, rather than having… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
