“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be loved despite my history: I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into and growing-out-of, someone to watch… — Lisa Marie Basile Copy Share Image
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.” — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, the reporter suggested that it had all… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
“How do you know all this?" "Well I don't know what you people from Colorado call it, but around here we call… — Tara A. Fuller Copy Share Image
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Look behind somebody’s horrible exterior, and you usually found a horrible interior, shaped by a horrible history.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“In practice, because the models of adversarial and inquisitorial procedure are ideal types—derived from medieval and early modern European history—no procedural system… — Amalia D. Kessler Copy Share Image
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay Copy Share Image
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“In that moment of revealing, one historian will write of Cleopatra, “her desire grew greater than it had been before.” — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in… — Alice Shapiro Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective. — No I.D Copy Share Image
