“She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...” — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do. — George W. Norris Copy Share Image
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.” “Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.” — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria.… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden. — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image