“One German-American friend of mine, an architectural historian my own age, can be counted on to excoriate Woodrow Wilson after he has… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Don't find a nice guy. You'd get bored, and he wouldn't know what to do with you. So... yeah, be pissed at… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“You see, Mr. Vidón, back in the day in Venezia, anyone could disguise themselves in a bauta mask: ricco o povero, uomo… — Carlos Hernandez Copy Share Image
We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities in our times. History repeats itself,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor… — George Bailey Copy Share Image
Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“There’s never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It’s a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in… — Harold G. Moore Copy Share Image
“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share… — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
“Don’t you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don’t know. Really, I’m not sure how… — Victor Gischler Copy Share Image
It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and all the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Turning the pages of scriptural history from beginning to end, we learn of the ultimate pioneer-even Jesus Christ. His birth was foretold… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that when understanding and tolerance are fostered, people of different faiths can live together in harmony. Regrettably, history… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name… — Kris Waldherr Copy Share Image
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and… — Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: "It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
