“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. 'Fear,' he used to say, 'fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.' That blew me away. 'Turn on the TV,' he'd say. 'What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People sel…”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”— Jasper Fforde, amazon.com
“The Past, then, is a constant accumulation of images. It can be easily contemplated and listened to, tested and tasted at random, so that it ceases to mean the orderly alternation of linked events that it does in the large theoretical sense.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“If you could visit any time period in all of history, what would it be?”— Kimberly Truong, refinery29.com
“Dr. King, people forget, was not this beloved figure that everybody put on a pedestal. He was considered one of the most dangerous people in America by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.”— Van Jones, imdb.com
“We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.”— Malcolm X, imdb.com
“History is not just stuff that happens by accident. We are the products of history that our ancestors choose, if we’re white. If we are black, we are the products of the history that our ancestors mostly likely did not choose. Yet here we are all together, the products of that set of choices. And we…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.com
“You know each other’s histories. The skeletons are out of the closet, you’ve learned them, accepted them, and understand them. Any issues he’s had prior to your relationship won’t interfere with what you establish moving forward.”— Stacey Becker, thoughtcatalog.com
“History began July 4th, 1776. Anything before that was a mistake.”— Michael Schur, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com
“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”— Michelle Obama, whitehouse.gov
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“Jesus offered great hope. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The meek shall inherit the earth and ascend to the right hand of God. This, from the Sermon on the Mount, is the most radical social and political doctrine ever…”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“It wasn’t long before Hitler was receiving injections of Eukodal several times a day. Eventually he would combine it with twice daily doses of the high grade cocaine he had originally been prescribed for a problem with his ears, following an explosion in the Wolf’s Lair, his bunker on the eastern fr…”— Rachel Cooke, theguardian.com
“But the invasion of France was made possible by the drugs. No drugs, no invasion. When Hitler heard about the plan to invade through Ardennes, he loved it [the allies were massed in northern Belgium]. But the high command said: it’s not possible, at night we have to rest, and they [the allies] will…”— Rachel Cooke, theguardian.com
“Kids today learn about sex and Alexander Hamilton much sooner than I did.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“History began on July 4, 1776. Everything that happened before that was a mistake.”— Ron Swanson, amazon.com
“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“You know each other’s histories. The skeletons are out of the closet, you’ve learned them, accepted them, and understand them. Any issues he’s had prior to your relationship won’t interfere with what you establish moving forward.”— Stacey Becker, thoughtcatalog.com