All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Ted Williams hit 17 career grand slams. He is the toughest batter to get out in major league history. It was never… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“... between the Great Swirl and the Two Screen, between the back-and-forth and the endless curve that will come of it--as between… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Look back at history,” he said, after a minute or two. “Most great and remarkable men weren't tame or politically correct. They… — Elizabeth Nicole Copy Share Image
I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
“We may choose to freeze a moment and say that it all 'began' then, but as an historian I have to tell… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
I'm head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me,… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
“There is a confusing dual structure in the relationship of the individual to history. Even the sensory certainties of suffering follow a… — Andreas Bernard Copy Share Image
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the… — Leah Reise Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of story we learn over and over again about everything in the world: your life starts out as a… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
“(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“The reason to have history is to be able to say, ‘This is where you came from. This is what it cost.… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,'… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” Gerald… — Max Allan Collins Copy Share Image
“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
