“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here,… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
“Our leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going, while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“connections. For instance, the National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) suggests that students engage in the deepest “historical thinking” when… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
“Rumor had it that Professor Jerkwad had a history of holding classes in bars and using the school's senior class as harvesting… — June Casagrande Copy Share Image
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know… — Jean-Luc Bilodeau Copy Share Image
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
'She's my kinda rain like love from a drunken sky, confetti fallin' down all night, she's the sunset shadow, she's like rembradt's… — Tim Mcgraw Copy Share Image
There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
There are persons who leave an indelible impression in the history of the world. They make it compulsory for the future generations… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
“Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
We got two examples in recent history from this country. One in the '80s under President Reagan. One under President Clinton and… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
A historic operation occurred over in Boston. Doctors successfully transplanted tissue from a pig's brain to a man's brain -- and the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is… — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Live each moment in present. Yesterday is history, make peace with it Make past worth to inspire for coming moment . In… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image