“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We can't change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things - the sacrifices our loved ones… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Eve, did you marry me for my money?" "You bet your ass. And you'd better hold on to it, or I'm history"… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“John McNeill suggests that “we have probably deployed more energy since 1900 than in all of human history before 1900” — David Christian Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Our self illusion is so interwoven with personal memories that when we recall an event, we believe we are retrieving a reliable… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
In fact, we're both [with Elie Wiesel] engaged with the text. We search for different things, we find different things. There is… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Lesson for today… just because an autistic child seems intensely focused on numbers, facts and history, does NOT mean they don't feel… — Liz Becker Copy Share Image
“Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television. — Ng Chin Han Copy Share Image
“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better… — Ahmad Fuadi Copy Share Image
There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity. — Joel Hunter Copy Share Image
“All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: Theyre dead, get over it. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paris is pregnant with layers of history, colored with the ink of artists who dared to dream of a world only they… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
A large part of running for president is intense scrutiny on personal history and political records. But once you're in office, that… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Our firm: We study history. We think about the future. We try to analyze what's going on in the present. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
“What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not… — Karen L. King Copy Share Image
God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image