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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Historical consciousness therefore leaves you, as does maturity itself, with a simultaneous sense of your own significance and insignificance. Like Friedrich's wanderer,… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There seems, however, to be a problem with some of our more cherished beliefs about the world: they are leading us, inexorably,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“IN THE MOST CRUCIAL EVENTS IN REDEMPTIVE HISTORY, God takes considerable pains to ensure that no one can properly conclude that these… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The most important impact of script on human history is precisely this: it has gradually changed the way humans think and view… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“expensive paint jobs in history. Michelangelo began at the top of the wall and slowly worked his way down for more than… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely… — Mccann Colum Copy Share Image
“My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world.… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride.… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For these reasons they should not hesitate to exchange peace for war. If wise men remain quiet, while they are not injured,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“If we are not applying the lessons to be gained from yesterday's history to address the problems of today - then why… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“One life and another: that’s what matters. You have to understand: history can change people, but people can change history too. Because… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when… — William James Copy Share Image
