It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on… — Ronald Syme Copy Share Image
I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Throughout the archives, repeatedly they face the classic insinuation against victims of sexual assault. The” — Gaiutra Bahadur Copy Share Image
When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
If you have a history of being attracted to people who have failed you in relationships, find people that aren't so exciting… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Under this spell we were really startled by being suddenly confronted by a priestly form. A second glance revealed, however, only a… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“It inspires a bit of awe to see working dogs really do their jobs, to see thousands of years of history, instinct,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
“the entire history of our family has played out in the fields and villages stretching away beneath that fell, between Lake District… — James Rebanks Copy Share Image
“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11) — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history.” — Brenda Cothern Copy Share Image
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
