The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“... momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“If only feelings and ideas and stories and history really could be contained in a block of marble—if only there could be… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films. — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
“Some of the proudest moments in the history of this country are grounded in the principle that members of dominant groups have… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are… — Tim Reid Copy Share Image
“And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Solar power - the costs have dramatically fallen, far faster than anyone has speculated. It's probably one of the greatest steps forward… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
Sir Alex Ferguson already has his place in the history books; he is definitely one of the best coaches ever. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities.… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
