I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history. — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself and everyone else that Im over you. That youre history, and that Im just being silly by even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“When Kushim’s neighbours called out to him, they might really have shouted ‘Kushim!’ It is telling that the first recorded name in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said… — David Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout… — Coolio Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.” — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
“Carbon dioxide levels throughout the northern hemisphere hit 400 parts per million for the first time in human history in April,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects’ minds, often not at all.” — Harry Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of… — James Hamilton-Paterson Copy Share Image
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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