Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I personally love Brady Hoke. He played football at Ball State a decade before me. He was the third-leading tackler on one… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
The primary goal for me in doing a superhero series is to make it new-reader-friendly, so it might not be front-loaded with… — Kate Leth Copy Share Image
One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“And she was...what? A governess? A false governess whose life history began in 1816 when she'd stepped off the ferry, seasick and… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I am so dying to know what cookies are slang for.” “Probably his cock,” Jacob plopped down on the arm of the… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
“Far too often, historians treat African Americans as if white segregationists had succeeded, as if blacks lived in their own separate world,… — Shane White Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
Name the 10 most influential men in history and the debate can rage for hours; when it comes to women, after number… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming… — Marty Scurll Copy Share Image
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United… — Joe Kennedy III Copy Share Image
Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The fact that a wrestling program called 'Raw' could be the longest running television show in the history of television, bar nobody… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack… — Molière Copy Share Image
I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image