I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
Diane Wakoski
HistoryGreatPoetryThinkLanguage
I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
Jesmyn Ward
HistoryThinkBlindPresentUnited
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
Antonio Tabucchi
HistoryWarPeopleMeWorldForget
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
Jeff Greenfield
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I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
HistoryPeopleStatisticsSaidWill
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Adam Davidson
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The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
Tom Stoppard
HistoryCommon SenseDoneNowSense
If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.
Liya Kebede
WomenCourageHistoryMomentWorld
Just to be part of the history of the Hollywood Bowl - so many people have played there; at least, all of my heroes have.
Coy Bowles
HistoryPeopleHollywoodHeroesJust
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
Sally Rooney
HistoryTimeServicePeopleSmall
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
John Kasich
HistoryBudgetPlanDownWashington
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
Pierre Schaeffer
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History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
Irving Azoff
HistoryPeopleYouPlaceWantSee
I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
Soulja Boy
HistoryGreatnessThinkHip-Hop
France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.
Rosecrans Baldwin
HistoryAmericaLongDreamFind
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
Dick Wolf
HistoryFocusPeopleSayingEarly
I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
Jesse Williams
WorkHomeHistoryMyselfSchoolMe
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
Antony Beevor
HistoryRespectIdentityWorldOwn
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
Natasha Trethewey
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No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay
HistoryYouNothingHumanTurnShow
The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.
Sherwood Smith
WomenHistoryTogetherWorldWant
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
Camille Paglia
HistoryThinkingViewLongRome
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'
Tom Wolfe
LifeHistoryDisciplineKeyDown
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