History Quote by Patricia Highsmith

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false…

— Timothy Zahn

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is…

— Phil Zimmermann

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply…

— Pierre Trudeau

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for.

— Mike Faist

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…

— Jonathan Swift

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only…

— Tom Vilsack

I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt…

— Rose Namajunas