The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“...one may easily define two diametrically opposed lessons to be drawn from Jewish history: one holds that the memory of Jewish suffering… — Amnon Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
“The more history I learn, the more the world fills up with stories. Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history.… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
“MANY a hearth upon our dark globe sighs after many a vanish’d face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That night King Ahasuerus couldn’t sleep so he read the history of his empire. There he learned that Mordecai had saved his… — Daniel Partner Copy Share Image
If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Many historians, many sociologists and psychologists have written at lenght, and with deep concern, about the price that Western man has had… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“But I do remember this thing that this famous rabbi wrote once about how Christians build cathedrals, these gorgeous impressive structures, but… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to… — Laura Wheldon Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So in the summer of 1968, a young golfer from Texas experienced something that would forever change his life. Not only did… — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
He blinked a couple of times at me then rubbed his eyes in a cute way. I gave a shy smile and… — Jade Copy Share Image
“Invisibility--there are things we can't see now, that are there, that are embedded, that it really takes time in order to be… — Lynn Hershman Leeson Copy Share Image
“The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
In the wild enthusiasm of youth, you have an ability to break break someone's heart,break someone's sentiment or even molest a girl.… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States' economic and social fabric. Because… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
