I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the… — James Collins Copy Share Image
“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable… — Carl Lotus Becker Copy Share Image
Don't live your life as if your going to live here forever. Nobody in the history of mankind has ever escaped death.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[M]y terror of forgetting is greater than my terror of having too much to remember. Let the accumulated facts about the past… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete… — Marissa Piesman Copy Share Image
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I played with great teammates like Ronaldinho and Messi. I think they are two of the greatest players in the history of… — Giovani Dos Santos Copy Share Image
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“Maury’s mind was practical, solidly founded on history, memory, and experience. It was in no way academic or theoretical. He did not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
“beautiful.” “You are the first,” adds Cat. “The first Queen to publish your own words in English. This makes history, Kit.” — Elizabeth Fremantle Copy Share Image
Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“he says it gently, but I can feel a pained history behind the words. Kids can be cruel to each other. To… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Stead of no war take a look and stead of the violence take a book and report to history. Trace up the… — Tarrus Riley Copy Share Image
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The definition of a statesman, leader, and class act, General Powell embodied the very best of America, and his faithful service to… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented. — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's anyone's goal as a receiver to want to have the most yards ever in the history of the NFL, but I… — Justin Jefferson Copy Share Image
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing… — Herbert Gutman Copy Share Image
School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: They're dead. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience… — Will Self Copy Share Image