It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The China Bubble is the biggest bubble in history, and the bigger the bubble, the bigger the bust. There will be blood… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious. — Philippe Sollers Copy Share Image
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“For what is worth: Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless… — Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard Copy Share Image
“The history of Italy, and especially of Rome, is intertwined with the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome became tied to… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive -… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“We can embrace our whole life story in the knowledge that we have been graced and made beautiful by the providence of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation,… — Lawrence Goodwyn Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too… — Tish Thawer Copy Share Image
History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're… — John Collison Copy Share Image
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it.… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future… — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.” — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
When you ask who I am, my parents are from Haiti. So we have an amazing history of the first Black republic...… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and… — Kate Garraway Copy Share Image
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
History will judge Senator Inhofe. You know he has a lot or responsibility on his hands for keeping any kind of movement… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image