“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Studying the history of our ancestors is instructive. I understand some of my parents’ struggles and sacrifices. I am acquainted with my… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“When he asked if she was okay, her eyes welled with tears and she said, “Like I’m always telling my brothers, if… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of… — Andy Bell Copy Share Image
“The verdict of history seems to be that free-market capitalism is the globally optimal way to cooperate for economic efficiency; perhaps, in… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I… — Petra Kvitova Copy Share Image
Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
When you look at history, every major movement, the first thing they do is create an aesthetic. Think about the Nazis. Or… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
“Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Some species of trees spread root systems underground that interconnect the individual trunks and weave the individual trees into a more stable… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“That the petitioner No. 2 is the founder President of an Institution, namely, “ Institute for Re-writing Indian (and World) History “.… — Yogesh Saxena Copy Share Image
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As I researched the history of the heroine it became painfully clear to me that women have had little hand in creating… — Kathleen Noble Copy Share Image
I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Their society had been built to fail. Dynasties of power and parties of authority had on retrospect, staged countless renditions of the… — Rohith S. Katbamna Copy Share Image
Some people cling to the belief that the Civil War was fought over states' rights. But history is not on their side.… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“art is question without answer; religion is question and answer, where the answer cannot be explained but only repeated; science is question… — Efraim Podoksik Copy Share Image
“Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Our history, America’s history, has been so heavily edited. In history classes, we don’t really go into full discussions about the past.… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image