For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The last tears in my eyes is the tears of HEARTACHE, but I realized that in every mistake has its own correction,… — Rochelle Navarrete Copy Share Image
The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of… — Willis A. Carto Copy Share Image
Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are -… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“-“Forced love hurts God.” -“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?” -“At the end of our lives it is our loves we… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is probably no mere historical accident that the word person, in its first meaning, is a mask. It is rather a… — Robert Ezra Park Copy Share Image
“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Every dictator in history has made that same speech, Bob. Hitler thought he was fighting for the greater good, too. Isn’t it… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“What unites conservatives and modernizers and young and old, is a hunger not for freedom but for justice; for genuine rule of… — Karen Elliott House Copy Share Image
“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer… — Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer Copy Share Image
“What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a… — Earl G. Graves, Sr Copy Share Image
“I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
I have a history, even going back to my time in college doing plays, of always hurting myself at some point in… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
