“Damaris,” she whispered, naming the blade. “You know your history,” said a light, female voice, and Celaena jumped, yelping as she tripped… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“Some say the Tudors transcend this history, bloody and demonic as it is: that they descend from Brutus through the line of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
“There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The concept of modernity in literary history was also related to the relation each Indian language and literature developed with English. Sanskrit… — Francesca Orsini Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge,… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
“The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. "Suffered under… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“One is too precious about the past, the other too hungry for the future. One arm being dragged into the past by… — Winy Maas Copy Share Image
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that… — Ellen Orleans Copy Share Image
The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“vital historical fact: that Gamal Abdel Nasser signifies the only truly Egyptian developmental project in the country's history since the fall of… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“One of the great ironies of history is that the more similar two groups are, the greater the potential for them to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way… — Monica Copy Share Image
'America's Dad' is what we called Bill Cosby. And we called him that because, well, what a revolutionary way to put it.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“The gingko tree leans lazily against the facing wall or perhaps it supports it; Stephen cannot be sure. The dense ridges of… — Michael Tobert Copy Share Image
In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
“The cedars 'know the history of the earth better than history itself.' If this was so, it was little wonder that they… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
