Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison,… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I made my debut very early and a lot of things happened to me at a young age, but I was there… — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I studied psychology, history, and religion. I was a heady girl, but frankly, I'm glad I studied those subjects because a lot… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even… — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer,… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its… — Lester D. Langley Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
“Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')” — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.” — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression. — Halima Aden Copy Share Image
What responsible gun owner thinks everyone and anyone should have access to a firearm without a little bit of precaution taken to… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by… — Mary Fallin Copy Share Image
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.” — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“History surrounds us. You cannot open your eyes, not in Paris, and see something that wasn't touched by someone long gone. You,… — Lynn Sheene Copy Share Image
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image