Rom nii aveau însă nevoie de o istorie eroică, tot așa cum aveau nevoie de origini mărețe, pentru a compensa frustrările prezentului.

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, ‘No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don’t...

It was great. No one else had one but me.” Gerald Blanchard on what it was like to possess the Koechert Diamond Pearl.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

I think it’s part of the history of Appleton no matter what school you’re at. For those people that get into history, I think it’s a nice thing to look at. Historically, it’s important to...

The opposition says this election isn’t clean. It’s the cleanest in Venezuela’s history, but they have interests opposed to the National Elections Council, … The Democratic Action party has withdrawn from the elections. Very good!...

We’ve built enough capacity to exceed any other planned event in the history of the Web.

The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history...

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that...

The Comtesse’s fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses and politicians: the Duchesse de Crequy-Montmorency and Madame Roland; Madame du...

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and put on the clothes an ambassador would wear....

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.

In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted,...

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker...

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

Considering the low percentage female artists represented in recognized institutions, galleries etc. I don´t pay any of these institutions attention. I simply avoid such places. I find it insulting and can´t be bothered to support...

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

…only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle’s greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations had an impact reminiscent of those science fiction stories in which the world...

For the first time in our history, Ukraine has a ticket to the world championship, … I believe your achievements will make our country’s fame grow.

Bangsa Jawa itu bangsa dongeng dan kenang-kenangan. Siapakah yang pada suatu ketika akan mengantarkan bangsa itu dari dunia hikayat dan legenda ke kehidupan yang nyata? Bukankah kita harus menuju ke situ? Dan dengan menyingkirkan takhayul...

There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight....

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I’m still here. I have a history of victory.

I love the word ‘fashion.’ That’s why I’m using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or...

Oh, he shouldn’t be surprised, he’s a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History...

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

A woman’s got one life: She’s got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it’ll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

it is such a delicate part of Czech history that it cannot be done without consensus on it in the Czech Republic.

The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they...

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

World praises the amalgamation of unconscious & conscious, History is the testament.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

I am not suggesting that history or scepticism by themselves can provide all the answers to all these questions. History, after all, is not a forward-looking discipline. It can only tell us what happened the...

Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

History is the stories we tell about the past.

History doesn’t remember gardens.…You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

I don’t like museums, I like labs.

He recounted how, after the last of Charlemagne’s forty-seven victorious campaigns, when he was returning from Saxony, a comet flashed across the sky and the Emperor’s horse shied and threw him to the ground. The...

You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Dig Deep! When the task at hand seems to be very difficult. Dig Deep! Whenever you feel you’re drifting away from your intended course. Dig Deep! When others doubt you and say it can’t be...

The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken....