The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it…

I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and…

— Denise Levertov

Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me…

— Brooke Fraser

“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for…

— Antony Beevor

“My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word…

— Danzy Senna

“Discovering the history of an individual saves you a lot of time, energy, money, and many more towards your own goal(s) in life. Later,…

— Isaac Nash

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

— Ruth Benedict

“The history of an individual is a mystery to others. It is wonderful, fascinating, and motivating if revealed. The moment you learn about someone's…

— Isaac Nash

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in…

— Gordon Brown

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

— Raymond Queneau

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the…

— Ruth Benedict

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

— Novalis

“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art…

— Leo Tolstoy

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

— Carl Jung

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe