Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling. — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history? — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.” — Anne Lovett Copy Share Image
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can… — Anthony Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem” — J.A. Belfield Copy Share Image
A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged… — Horace Rowan Gaither Copy Share Image
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it. — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image