'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
“The godly man does not have children in order to fill Satan’s forces or populate hell, but in order to reclaim the… — Rich Lusk Copy Share Image
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books,… — Liz Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of mafia history - mostly the Italian mafia but also their associates, as well as Whitey Bulger and… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn… — Yoel Romero Copy Share Image
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When you see the great names like Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, you want to be next to them one… — Dmitry Bivol Copy Share Image
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
“The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.” — Stuart Haddon Copy Share Image
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“I had no words, and I always had words. No man in the history of my cunt had ever rendered me speechless.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
“Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have… — Livy Copy Share Image
“But should Bortz have exfoliated the mere words so lushly, into such unnatural roses, under which whose red, scented dusk, dark history… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
