It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always… — 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle Eustace Percy Copy Share Image
[On Los Angeles:] This city is a hundred years old but try and find some trace of its history. Every culture is… — Anne Finger Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Why is learning to talk easy while learning to write is difficult? The answer lies in our evolutionary history. Our ancestors have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the… — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer Copy Share Image
What the left are trying to do is to persuade millions of Americans that America itself is so unjust and illegitimate from… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every… — E. M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront,… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of… — Sholem Asch Copy Share Image
What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The history of Real Madrid is impressive, and Cristiano Ronaldo added a piece more to the history of this club, but Real… — Marcelo Copy Share Image
“My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever… — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road… — George Whitman Copy Share Image
“1.Payment history (35 percent)—Paying on time is the criterion. Missing payments hurts you here. 2.Debt (30 percent)—How much debt do you have?… — Cary Siegel Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Words are the only things in this universe, which never become old and if these become old then make history . Impact… — Naveen Mishra Copy Share Image
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because the whole world loves to tell us what we can’t do, that we aren’t good enough. The people in your own… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United… — Charles Lemert Copy Share Image
“It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“That “these people” were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others—that people who looked so very much like each other, who… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image