In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love. — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history. — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of… — Sally Armstrong Copy Share Image
Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
