I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
“This had been the seat of sovereignty, and it cropped up throughout the city’s history if you knew where to look. Jack… — China Miéville 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
By 12 I was sneaking out with friends to meet with guys because the rush of the chance of getting caught was… — Jade Copy Share Image
One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things,… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Road marks and maps decorate and adorn the history of our ancestral cultures. The preservation of distinct culture is therefore a a… — VD Copy Share Image
In addition to being a vital part of our history, agriculture is central to our growing economy and maintaining the outstanding quality… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football… — Rex Ryan Copy Share Image
“The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I'm hugely proud to be able to work with Ferrari - such a great team and huge amount of history, especially combined… — Mick Schumacher Copy Share Image
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
“But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands the rudiments of politics doesn't say, 'We will stop Iran's oil exports'... we have been the guarantor of the… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn… — Ross King Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
