Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a… — J.C. Penny Copy Share Image
I think anybody's who's ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I like to do some research and learn about the destination before I travel there. I read up on its history, culture… — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it. — Lee Clow Copy Share Image
Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.” — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!”17” — Bob Ward Copy Share Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“replayed on YouTube over a billion times, displacing Gangham Style as the most watched video in history.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history. — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
