This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“We in the West are the first generation in human history in which the mass of the population has to deliberately exercise… — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I have a history of it in the family - my uncle on my dad's side had schizophrenia, and my mom's brother… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz is on the cover of Newsweek magazine this week and they said that if he is elected… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The more that one studies the history of the building of the American nation, the clearer it becomes that it may be… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great… — Mathew Brady Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Honesty is not making excuses for yourself, an abusive partner, or a country that has less than a stellar history. It means… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“I'm not really interested in religion or history or science or mathematics or psychology or politics or geography. I feel I am… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler.… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
“Initiating change is not about the multitude; it’s about the audacity of a few, for history attests that the course of humanity… — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
WrestleMania is a week of activities and family-oriented fun, and then there is the special night at the end of it where… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is.… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable. — Justin Gatlin Copy Share Image
