Quotes of: Study-history Keyword

Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers.

A History of Food in 100 Recipes

A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.

The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

A People's History of the United States

Chance favors the connected mind.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

The History of Love

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Sam Harris

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

Mark Batterson

What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.

Mehmet Murat ildan

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Antony Beevor

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Cyndi Lauper

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

Chris Martin

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Dag Hammarskjold

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

Huston Smith

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.

Joseph Cummins

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

Jill Lepore

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

James McAvoy