Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery.… — Will Shortz Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides 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
Kafka was a complex character in a complex historical era. In order to understand him, you have to do more than cite… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth -… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn't want to depend on Web sources for… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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