The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a blues/jazz/gospel singer, but times had changed and disco was now the music - the new sound.… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history. — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself,” you sang. I wonder if that’s true. If there’s a hurt that’s buried in us, maybe it keeps fi… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
“Visigoth and Gaul, politics and plague. She fought on, struggling in tandem with antiquated interpretations and outmoded explanations, wondering at the senselessness… — Douglas Sterling Copy Share Image
Yesterday is History. History brings us to this present moment, but it doesn't shape who we are at this present moment. We… — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Oh, and because I don’t have a dating history as big as your mouth, it doesn’t quite measure up?” he asks. “I… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“Sherman and his men revealed what intellectual historian Joseph Kett has described as a singular American ability to remain creatively insubordinate within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of great quarterbacks, from Joe Montana being picked late to Tom Brady being picked late to… — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I was probably the best cherry picker in the history of African basketball. I got so many dunks, it was crazy. — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women’s collective dating history.” — Alice Walsh Copy Share Image
I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed… — Larry Merchant Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I know the Mad Hatter has a long history in the 'Batman' canon. He's quite a historically rich character, and he's come… — Benedict Samuel Copy Share Image
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
In reality, in the history of it, the captains are only really in charge during an engagement. The rest of the time,… — Zach McGowan Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr… — Joachim Schmid Copy Share Image
The beauty of being a liberal is that history always begins this morning. Every day liberals can create a new narrative that… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Make it easier for your citizens to be healthy and smart and they will save you in ways you have yet to… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what… — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
