Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself,… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“[Lee Oswald] saw himself as part of something vast and sweeping. He was the product of a sweeping history, he and his… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Daniel Bryan is a guy I'd like to mix it up with at some point - Tyson Kidd, Kevin Owens. You know,… — Neville Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose. — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
Both 'Mabo' and 'The Sapphires' have been significant roles because it's about my people. They are celebratory stories, on top of allowing… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
I felt so ashamed of my modeling history when I first got into acting, so I tried to hide that part of… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Two considerations led President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to choose Luis Donaldo Colosio as his successor: history and loyalty. — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college. — Markelle Fultz Copy Share Image
We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its… — John Howard Copy Share Image
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such… — Karen Harper Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image