When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team. To us is… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors… — Abraham Foxman Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is… — Charles Kellogg Copy Share Image
As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history… — Usher Copy Share Image
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.” — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“There is no real time, only one moment immediately after creation where God asked humanity to join Him. What humanity perceives as… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Bottom line - American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
There's something about 'Essence' that we more than like - that we really love: the history of the community, the forward-thinking leadership. — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself. — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
“The BBC's flagship natural history programme, was first shown in 1977, with The Bird That Beat The US Navy.” — Gareth Huw Davies Copy Share Image
Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Blackfeet have our own versions of the traumatic history that we collectively still feel. And it's just an ethos in my people… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it… — Deborah Kampmeier Copy Share Image
“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
When I started, there was never a great history of people doing well in snooker from Scotland. By chance, I got a… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
