As a Canadian, I've always approached international history as an outsider, neither attacking nor defending key decisions - those were made by… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
When you decide that Black history is not a part of American history or when you decide that any book that talks… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
“Writer William Mills in 1898 bluntly articulated that “The independence of Cuba is, therefore, an historical absurdity… Nothing but her complete incorporation… — Keith Bolender Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
“A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning… — Owen Davies Copy Share Image
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact.… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe,… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Call it what you like: The Upper Sky, the Unmade, even the Empyrean. Men have given it so many names over the… — Adam McOmber Copy Share Image
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Many lessons can be learned from the history of Western civilization, but one of them is especially clear. Lack of involvement in… — Jackson Spielvogel Copy Share Image
Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me. Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin history. No feelin… — TI Copy Share Image
America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“History is not an agreed-upon fiction but what gets made in a crowded room; what is said isn't what's heard, and what's… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge… — J. H. Hexter Copy Share Image
The work of Congress is not about my personal life, this is about delivering results for my constituents, finding bipartisan solutions, and… — George Santos Copy Share Image
“Recurrent invasions racked the city of Theodora in the centuries of its history; no sooner was one enemy routed than another gained… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history.… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — R. Bosworth Smith Copy Share Image
“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have… — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
“There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven braid of life. It takes every person’s story… — Virginia Gaffney Copy Share Image