Quotes of: World-history Keyword

Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there w...

The History of History

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environme...

What Is History?

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximall...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men...

Martin Gardner

I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart, and he shared them with me. I went on to do a degree in history, though I found it ra...

Jo Beverley

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools an...

Graham Hancock

Good writing is always new.

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

A Brief History of Time

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

Harold Rosenberg

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

The History Man

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

A Partial History of Lost Causes

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

Kelly Ripa

—Es mejor que sea un secreto. —¿Por qué? —Porque así no podrán quitárnoslo”.

The History of Love

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

Lailah Gifty Akita

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

Lailah Gifty Akita

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Ben Casnocha