The great thing about Pete and Peggy’s storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There’s so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it’s so loaded. So you honestly don’t have to do anything. – Elisabeth Moss
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word – for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. – David McCullough
It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story. – D. A. Pennebaker
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. – Mark McKinnon
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation’s history. – Ed Gillespie
Not all of E. Nesbit’s children’s books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do. – Michael Dirda
When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures. – Erwin McManus
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins
Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. – Donald Trump
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. – Daniel Libeskind
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. – Fidel Castro
It’s what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they’re not going anywhere. – Michael Nesmith
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the ‘bottle’ to enforce the powers that were available to them. – David Puttnam
By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. – Noam Chomsky
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history. – Denis O’Hare
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement. – Deborah Copaken Kogan
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. – Carl Bernstein
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. – Elon Musk
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles A. Beard
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. – Marc Bloch
Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions. – David Hallberg
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. – Neil Gaiman
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn’t vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation’s professed ideals in that Declaration. – Marvin Ammori
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and – above all – nothing seems impossible. – Catherine Helen Spence
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. – Daniel Silva