“He grinned like a proud male and moved closer. “It was good.” “Are you asking or telling?” “I know it was good.”… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just… — Bill Carter Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
“It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Organizations are accumulations of historical debris. They are not consciously thought. So when you ask the Education Ministry 'What's your core function… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“...I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men,… — Paul O. Kristeller Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
A hard Brexit would be so damaging to the true interests of the UK that what might follow - if we are… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Father is pleased with your progress. You humans are all the same you know. You’re always refusing just to enjoy the moment… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
“My concern is that you will face some delays and disappointments at this formative time in your life and feel that no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“I am not saying all of this in the spirit of “provocation,” I hope, but merely to try out these reflections on… — Scott Cowdell Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t worry, I am perfectly aware of the fantasy involved here, but what we want is almost never exempt from the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“We could begin to allow the history of science to curb scientific awe by imposing a rating system, like those used with… — Douglas M. Jones III Copy Share Image
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
