Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of mankind we've always been subject to the whims of whatever our ruling body is saying. However the political… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism.” — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac Copy Share Image
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal… — Slawomir Cenckiewicz Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I call Zen the only living religion because it is not a religion, but only a religiousness. It has no dogma, it… — OSHO Copy Share Image
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish,… — Ian K. Smith Copy Share Image
“History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and… — Debra Komar Copy Share Image
Lucio Tan Group has had an historic interest in education. From my days as a struggling working student, I knew that education… — Lucio Tan Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in… The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every heartbeat is a history of decisions, of certain roads taken and others forsaken until you end up exactly where you are.” — Kate Harris Copy Share Image
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't… — John C. Malone Copy Share Image
