The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And I want to be one of them. I want to be one of them so, so badly - to fit into… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a film composer because I heard scores that could stand alone, from 'Vertigo' to 'Star Wars' to 'La… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Italy won the world title in 2006 and went out in the group phase in 2010 and 2014. They didn't make it… — Diego Forlan Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our… — Louis Dupré Copy Share Image
“It is a common error to assume that the lack of a formal education means that shoemakers, weavers, peasants or indigenous peoples… — Oscar Guardiola-Rivera Copy Share Image
'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
“How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity… — Emile Argand Copy Share Image
“The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical movement much larger than his own… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Being born a Jew meant being vulnerable to history, including its worst errors. Accident and history had involved Yakov Bok as he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of… — William James Copy Share Image
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Half of the 102 people on the Mayflower made it through the first winter, which to me seemed amazing. How did they… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“From The Noise of Time: What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves--the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Because of the standing in society, because women's basketball does not draw the interest that major professional sports leagues or men's college… — Doris Burke Copy Share Image
Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“...we have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I quickly realized that the press was a double-edged sword because of what instantly became the world’s most popular book: it was… — Kenneth C. Johnson Copy Share Image
I never thought we'd be put into any sort of historical thing. When we started as a band, it was a day-to-day… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
“On April 4, 1980, John Paul II instituted the practice of hearing confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday, apparently becoming… — Ken Untener Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“The historical background of the Book of Daniel must embrace a narrative of the events, actual or assumed, that form the setting… — Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones Copy Share Image
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“Military history teaches us, contrary to popular belief, that wars are not necessarily the most costly of human calamities. The allied coalition… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
You probably won't remember me. I'm probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few who went ahead and fell for you.… — Jann Arden Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also… — Keith Stewart Copy Share Image
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
After school, I went to Damascus to study law and history, which I didn't really like. I didn't like history, in particular.… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
