“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“1. First, human beings are linguistic beings and, as we’ll show, live in concerns unavoidable for linguistic beings. 2. Second, human beings live… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Trump's inability to relate actions to consequences, his profound intellectual ambivalence about history, strategy and facts, in addition to his notoriously delicate… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our national history cannot be national if, in the near future, one in three young adults feels their stories remain untold, if… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
What attracted us and allured us to Old Trafford are all the great things, all the great history, and all the great… — Joel Glazer Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions,… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“WHITE AMERICANS HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL SENSE OF HISTORY. They make it up as they go along, constantly revising to suit their… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
There was no better entrance in history than The Ultimate Warrior. It was the greatest entrance between the music that had that… — Hornswoggle Copy Share Image
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think, the most progress I have agenda, the progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party. So we have got… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
“Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
Israeli society's inability to tolerate even a single soldier held in captivity results in popular movements that have tremendous impact on strategic… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image