“Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I was told that there are about 900 gold medal winners in American Olympic history. When I thought about the number 900,… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
“A story is built from the things that did not happen as much as from the things that did. Evolution is a… — Adrian J. Walker Copy Share Image
“We shall not understand the history of men and of other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“About the Author Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
“But behind the superficial appearance of a time of radical upheaval, most governments and ordinary people simply did not experience the Belle… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
To be able to bring an entire city together is not easy, and we definitely have one thing in common in the… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
“History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For my mum, it was really important to teach me and my brothers, so it came more from her to be honest… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of… — John Jeremiah Bigsby Copy Share Image
“Because history has the functions it has—supplying practical lessons and moral examples, shaping a culture’s identity and even influencing one’s view of… — Heath White Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The workers stayed in the plant instead of walking out, and this had clear advantages: they were directly blocking the use of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled… — Philip S. Foner Copy Share Image
In the wild enthusiasm of youth, you have a right to break someone's heart,break someone's sentiment or even molest a girl. One… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The cornbread necklace is a traditional piece of Cherokee jewelry. It is made of teardrop-shaped beads that are believed to be a… — Rennay Craats Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
