“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history.… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Do you think you can can change anything?' 'Of course not. We're waiting.' 'For what? 'Until the world changes on its own.… — Ian Pears Copy Share Image
“Not to use bacteria as model organisms for more complex animals, but the reverse: to literally make complex animals more like their… — Hannah Landecker Copy Share Image
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
“(What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second World War by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Even for most of the GOP's old-school legislators, there is dawning understanding that opposition to freedom to marry is on the wrong… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The history of the human race doesn’t make happy reading, does it? I’ve seen a lot of sadness during my time, but… — Peter James Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“The ostensible culprit is liberalism’s bitterly contested remedies which asked too much of whites. Yet this ignores the long history, in the… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“I think this is truly the most wonderful experience we can have: to belong to a people walking, journeying through history together… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
“We wanted to blast the world free of history… picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Growing up in an old city, you learn history's one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Political observers point out that our country has a long, raucous history of witch hunts. “In times of economic distress, people tend… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
“Some men have been virtuous blindly, others have speculated fantastically, and others have been shrewd to bad purposes; but you, sir, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
“With the years and convulsions of history, the word-as reductionist as the dictionary itself-has undergone absurd metamorphoses. In some countries, they prefer… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“He solicited others for a more recent history of the East India Company, that arm of the British Crown that really ruled… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
