Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.” — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions. — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous. — Edgar Dale Copy Share Image
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“Bitter disappointment pushed tears from her eyes. "Now what's wrong? I said you could wear it." She drew in a shaky breath.… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism,… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel,… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums.… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are… — Vilhelm Moberg Copy Share Image
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic… — Scipio Africanus Copy Share Image
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative. — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Kiss under the kissing bough and a lady is guaranteed to be wed before the following Christmastide.” — Christina McKnight Copy Share Image
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
