My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
“The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Dont allow problems of the past to clog your happiness. Work diligently to unravel yourself from your past history. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“The single book that has influenced me most is probably the last book in the world that anybody is gonna want to… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
We've seen it time and again - Chinese companies don't play by the rules, committing intellectual property theft and disregarding basic regulatory… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — William James Will Durant Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This is not about you or me; it's about a horse making history. It's sacred. Most people don't remember the trainer or… — Bob Baffert Copy Share Image
We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about the sudden enthusiasm for aggressive government intervention during a health crisis. Throughout history, pandemics have led to… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think we're past the point in history where a woman's physical appearance may play some part in job availability… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
Immigration reform doesn't impact me personally; nothing my foundation works on does. But the truth is I have a long history of… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
“I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable… — Robert Kirshner Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image