As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition,… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The beauty of being the person behind the pen is that you get to rewrite history, but people who read my lyrics… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
He looked all the boys individually in the eyes then laid his gaze on me. Why you looking at me like that?… — Jade Copy Share Image
Look at what Billy Graham has done, he's a legend. He would never tell you that, but look at the history, all… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious experience for the children to travel by rail and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The nature of the case and the history of philosophy combine to recommend to us this division of intellectual labour between Academies… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
When Barack Obama tries to continually weasel his ever-expanding government into the private sector or does something like try to sneak the… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“I feel love, but I also feel our history, years and years of choosing him, the good, the bad, highs and lows.… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans,… — Barbara J. Fields Copy Share Image
I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
