Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

It frustrates and fascinates me that we’ll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we’ll just never know. What the first song sounded...

But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A...

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe’s urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of...

The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding charisma to which few were not prey. The embodied sovereign power, total power....

For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider’s perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces...

Your condition does not determine your life history. It’s your decision in that condition that tells more about your destiny. Decide not to see the available as the preferable!

The bulk of PDS members and important functionaries have not learnt anything from history, … And now they do not have the courage to say it was a wall of disgrace.

History,’ Mari muttered, as if she’d overheard his thoughts. ‘Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?’ ‘So hopefully we get smarter and don’t make the same mistakes again.

Aku masih memimpin satu revolusi, sekalipun hanya revolusi dari “tuntutan yang semakin meningkat”. Ini berarti hidup menurut hukum revolusi: hantam lawan-lawanmu. Membunuh atau dibunuh. Memenjarakan atau dipenjarakan.

Gotob royong adalah pembantingan tulang bersama, pemerasan keringat bersama, perjuangan bantu-membantu bersama. Amal semua buat kepentingan semua.

Telah terbukti dalam sejarah keagamaan dan politik, bahwa usaha untuk menindas seorang pemimpin, akan membuat namanya semakin hidup di hati rakyat.

Ini adalah bagian perjuangan yang kami lakukan, perjuangan tanpa harapan.

Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there....

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them.

In the 40,000 year time scale we’re all the same people. We’re all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

The biggest thing I want these guys to understand is that last year is done and gone and it’s history. That is the critical factor. There is no sneaking up on people now. We gained...

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need...

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

No fundo, os seres humanos não passam de veículos, ou locais de passagem, para os genes. De geração em geração, correm dentro de nós até nos esgotarem, como cavalos de corrida. Os genes não pensam...

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship’s hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o’re the sea.” (Cutthroat’s Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

Bukanlah kepercayaan religius yang menyebabkan individu-individu dan rakyat-rakyat Islam itu bertindak, walaupun mungkin kelihatannya seolah-olah demikian. Kepercayaan religius tidak membentuk hidup mereka; ini sering hanya merupakan alat di tangan pemerintah-pemerintah, kelas-kelas dan kelompok-kelompok. Islam merupakan...

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write...

The US military and the CIA got busy working on plans for the conquest of Cuba. And it would be no Mickey Mouse boat operation this time. This time, Fidel Castro and his hairy henchmen...

La historia es una increíble cantidad de manotazos por todos lados, algunos agarran la manija y otros se quedan con los dedos en el aire, pero cuando sumás el todo por ahí te da la...

History looks queer when you’re standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it’s being made.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

Who knows what’s for true once a time is past? There’s no way to prove how something was that’s gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It’s all rain into rivers...

It must have really not liked me, but I can’t imagine why, don’t say anything Amelia.”Amelia shrugged her shoulders, “It liked me the first time.”Otto smirked, “Well I have no idea why.

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation – a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) – and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals)...

Ich weiß nicht, aber mich dünkt, ich sähe zwei Wege um zur Wissenschaft der menschlichen Geschichte zu gelangen. Der eine, mühsam und unabsehlich, mit unzähligen Krümmungen, der Weg der Erfahrung; der andere, fast ein Sprung...

History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The encouragement which learning and scientific research received from Islamic theology resulted...

I’ve done the fluffiest and the darkest theater pieces in recent history,

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in “petting”–which, interpreted broadly, meant that they were could do anything sexual short of intercourse. Women were...

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on...

Carthago delenda est

{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain’t gonna be happy in heaven...

By the time this building opens, we’ll have 61 or 62 years of racing in our history, so how many people do you induct in your charter class? Too many wouldn’t be meaningful. How high...

It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to escape from Bedlam, but the anomalies of the case made it highly unlikely that he would...

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

I know the difference between peace and war better than any man in my country. Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply...

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.