If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I never pay attention in math, but if I did, I still could not calculate how much I love you I pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So why don't they face us... examine our evidence, debate, talk... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out… — Randolph D. Calverhall Copy Share Image
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“There are years and years of my life I can’t remember a thing about. A family member will say, “Remember the time… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
“America today remembers its history through visual imagery. Film, print, and electronic media are very capital intensive, which means that most Americans… — Jerry Lembcke Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that… — Ajit Pai Copy Share Image
“The passenger booked by this history, was on the coach-step, getting in; the two other passengers were close behind him, and about… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was… — Charles Seymour Robinson Copy Share Image
The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel.… — Anne Burrell Copy Share Image
“No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians’ introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“there are brief enchanted moments in history and in the short lives of men and women, there is wonder and there is… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution… — Gary B. Nash Copy Share Image
“Most of his face had been hidden by long, greasy bangs, and he mumbled in a low voice that made him difficult… — Mizuki Mizushiro Copy Share Image
“Nothing in all history,” William Lloyd Garrison wrote, equaled “this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from . . . the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
“I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a… — Savo Heleta Copy Share Image