And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“Some historians, in fact, suggest Hartford recruiters may have pioneered strategies that spurred the great migration of Southern rural blacks to Northern… — Susan Eaton Copy Share Image
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The chickens bounced onto the pink and purple bush and landed on Annika's head." It's funny because nobody has ever said that… — Annika Copy Share Image
“Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. "Beauty by mistake"- the final… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Unless we know history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still… — Peter Dreier Copy Share Image
“It is true that historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize,… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable… — Robert Kirshner Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“History has shown very clearly that for democracy to continue, the people, and not the generals or even the executive authority, must… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A lot of bands in music history have had titles that were easy for radio DJs. We wanted to have titles that… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.” — Martha M Moravec Copy Share Image
I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated. How can it not be, with our history?” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image