The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about Ottoman court, and it was very Shakespearian in essence. Stories like the one in 'Hamlet' did happen… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I don't think that, when future generations look at the apartheid struggle, they will see it as quite the momentous literary cauldron… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hey now don't judge my get up.. I wrapped my arms around my self being self conscious in a house full of… — Jade Copy Share Image
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.'… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.” — Philip Meggs Copy Share Image
“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be… — Timothy J. Stoner Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
Chicago's history is a classic American tale of reinvention, while its present is buzzy, chic and architecturally stunning. — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will… — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I decided to come to Boston - to contend and win a championship, especially with the history… — Al Horford Copy Share Image
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow,… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
