“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can… — Cynthia A. Patterson Copy Share Image
When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster? — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history. — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
“Sidonius lives in a world already half barbarian, yet in the year before the Western Empire falls he is still dreaming of… — Eileen Power Copy Share Image
“Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
After leaving college, I was in a show called Sculpture by Women where I was asked to talk about my history of… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
“[New Orleans.] Katrina changed everything. Life here is different, every face altered. Yet we feel and sense the landscape not only in… — T.J. Fisher Copy Share Image
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that if I had been allowed to read history more constantly, instead of losing my time in studies… — Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon Copy Share Image
“Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history “philosophy taught with examples.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“replayed on YouTube over a billion times, displacing Gangham Style as the most watched video in history.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
“It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it. — Lee Clow Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.” — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!”17” — Bob Ward Copy Share Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.” — Martha M Moravec Copy Share Image