Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon… — Lillian Wald Copy Share Image
Before he can speak I kiss Stark. He is still smiling. I snuggle up to him and he is so warm! Next… — Jade Copy Share Image
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello Copy Share Image
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“If everyone always knows what they’re doing and acts in a perfectly rational way, how did most of world history happen?” — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Sometimes the connection you made with other people sneak-up on you, you share experience, you have a history, you share a bond.… — Igwe Daniel Kelechi Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought in my mind. Can you hear me? He pauses then nods. I get goosebumps. I could kind of feel something… — Jade Copy Share Image
We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Ted Williams hit 17 career grand slams. He is the toughest batter to get out in major league history. It was never… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“You forged your own path. You listened to no one and thought you knew best. In the end, your hands were covered… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“But history is replete with potential candidates for the presidency who waited too long rather than example of people who ran too… — Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As discussed in the previous chapter, direct militarization has a longer history in the United States but has been more” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The end of Leo at Barcelona was not the best. It was a difficult time. We had to take a decision and… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
“It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia." Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked… — Otto Ray and Amelia Raht Copy Share Image
The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books:… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image