“The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through… — Pius Langa Copy Share Image
“But I know now that isn’t true; history is filled with fictional people. And even the epigraph Fitzgerald placed at the beginning… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you learn from experience and history, and try to walk down a different road, the present always reminds you that you… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Martel seems to point to the fact that most people are engaged in forms of self-deception or revisionist history, reworking the narrative… — Melissa A. Fitch Copy Share Image
“Putting It All together Most applications only have a small number of critical user paths. For an eCommerce application, they might be:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“This boy was likely to die soon, but he died yesterday - because of a doctor's arrogance, his unwillingness to seek a… — Dr. Hooten Monday Mornings Copy Share Image
Trump is a populist in the same mold as the nineteenth-century Populists who gave their name to American grassroots political movements. Historians… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“For a time, the word Weltpolitik seemed to capture the mood of the German middle classes and the national-minded quality press. The… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo:… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
“history tells us of the case of a man living under the peculiar delusion that he was a fried egg. Quite how… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image