Historical Quotes · Page 22

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

— John Shelby Spong

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

— Patricia Leavy

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

— Michael Hirst

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

— Anonymous

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.

— Joe Biden

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

— John Stuart Mill

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in…

— Paulo Freire

Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to…

— Charles Hazlewood

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets…

— Bertolt Brecht

Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert…

— Kenneth D. Wald

Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his…

— Sara Sheridan

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans…

— Andrew Roberts

Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now…

— Noam Chomsky

When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack…

— Bill Moyers

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,…

— Arthur Koestler

If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the…

— Kehinde Wiley

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and…

— Fernand Braudel

I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group…

— Michael W. Smith

We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among…

— Charles Colson

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation…

— Frederick Russell Burnham

People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century,…

— Joseph M. Kyrillos

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

— Elie Wiesel

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

“Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to…

— Anonymous

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

— Daniel Botkin

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the…

— Nick Murray

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after…

— Buzz Aldrin

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

— Cary Fukunaga

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

— Will Eisner

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

— Pete Sampras

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often…

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk