The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.” — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving… — David Cook Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
