America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to… — Carrie P. Meek Copy Share Image
The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“We have the most complete and instant access to information in all of history, and we’re using it to watch funny cat… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed'… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what we are, look at the men reading books, searching in the dark pages of history for… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger… — Joseph Kerman Copy Share Image
“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and… — Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Copy Share Image
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history. — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable? — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Arsenal has been always been a big club in my eyes and I've seen them win loads of trophies. To be a… — Alex Iwobi Copy Share Image
To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a… — Charles Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“It is history and as such it is good for teachings only, it cannot change the future unless you dwell on it,… — M.J. Webb Copy Share Image
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A good relationship is more than just chemistry - it also has a lot to do with history, anatomy, physics, and accounting. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now,… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good… — Jol Dantzig Copy Share Image
“Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.” — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“History shows that erections happen at the worst possible times, and they stick around until someone else notices them. Often, it is… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
As with the Trojans or the Tudors, there are many evergreen stories that we come back to again and again. I think… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
