The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my actions,… — Casey Wasserman Copy Share Image
At first I didnt give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Thus, Christ making His human divine and taking it into heaven is the central event of all time. It is the miracle… — Steve Sanchez Copy Share Image
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed'… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger… — Joseph Kerman Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what we are, look at the men reading books, searching in the dark pages of history for… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“All of history’s great leaders had moments of glorious success and moments of devastating defeat. Great leaders focus on the things they… — Brett McKay Copy Share Image
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“America and Russia provide a good test of the accuracy of the Bible regarding the treatment of Jews. Russia has a long… — John McTernan Copy Share Image
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
“1:8 The apostles’ mission of spreading the gospel was the major reason the Holy Spirit empowered them. This event dramatically altered world… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“There are only three important events to history; by important I mean that these three events eclipse all others. These three events,… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if… — Jurgen Klopp Copy Share Image
Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
I came in there and did everything I had to do and the rest was history. So it was never like me… — Cuba Gooding Jr Copy Share Image
“Judgments of the importance of a historical phenomena may be judgments of value or faith, namely, when they refer to what is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales.… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
The United States of America was the first place on earth where average people had the opportunity to become the greatest among… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The history of middle-class and working-class revolutions has shown that the bulk of the peasants often constitute a brake on the revolution.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime… — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
“Love and charity share the same root word (caritas). How is that possible, when everything in our recent history suggest they cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
