I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something impossible rather than just something historical. — Eric Holmes Copy Share Image
There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. — Louis Bachelier Copy Share Image
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
“Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.” — The Instruction of Ptahhotop Copy Share Image
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is not fictional. It is factual, with information that is historical. It was not written to impress or… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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