Foreign country Quote by Rutger Bregman

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look…

— Steven Knight

Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.

— Stacey Abrams

I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out, but I…

— Margaret MacMillan

Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering,…

— Norman Davies

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look…

— Steven Knight

I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're…

— Hong Chau

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

— Mario Monti

For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo…

— Czeslaw Milosz

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

— Edwin Muir

If you think about the future, you lose perspective of the present.

— Keylor Navas

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense,…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Appreciation involves being alert to the positive aspects of the current situation and feeling thankful for what one has and for one's circumstances. This…

— Sandra L. Schneider