I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer.… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the… — Orlan Copy Share Image
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“Professors have a lot of power.” I almost smiled. “Even medieval history professors?” “Especially medieval history professors,” he assured me. “Knights on… — Nina Lane Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The USS Pargo, known for its participation in the search for the missing attack submarine USS Scorpion in 1968, was altered to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football… — Sepp Blatter Copy Share Image
I have a personal history of intervening in labor negotiations and not negotiating for people: let them negotiate, but sitting at the… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Whats Love? In Math: A Problem. In History: A War In Chemistry: A Reaction. In Art: A Heart. In Me: You Love… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God. It is far more… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must… — Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
