Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is… — Shirley Abbott Copy Share Image
While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“History is replete with rulers who maintained stability at the cost of justice, humanity and morality. Everyone from Adolf Hitler to Saddam… — Sidin Vadukut Copy Share Image
“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
“Being an Armenian is a merciless task and a heroic enterprise. It is a commandment, a mission, and a destiny that history… — Keri Topouzian Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
It is an honour and a pleasure to be able to play with Leo Messi. I want to learn. He is the… — Ousmane Dembele Copy Share Image
“There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“In religious affairs, history shows us that churches have their palmy days, and then again their times of drought. The Universal Church… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and… — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Most employees are like interchangeable machine parts. When they show up to work, there is no trace of the person they replaced,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
With Britain's departure from the E.U. and the new Trade and Co-operation Agreement we begin the next chapter in our story of… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Perspex - An In Depth Anaylsis on What Works and What Doesn't The history of the Perspex Sheet is entrancing. The story… — Canady White Copy Share Image
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I was also aware of three other historically important Christians whose apparently obsessive-compulsive symptoms had become a source of latter-day psychiatric speculation.… — Ian Osborn Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to… — Reginald Ray Copy Share Image
![“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.” quote by Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a30/dan-brown-203_bullying_t-he-other-lesson-history-has-taught-us_1883344.png)
