History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight…

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough…

— David Bronstein

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

— Murray Edelman

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis

Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it,…

— Colum McCann

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

— Edward Abbey

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.”

— Pankaj Mishra

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

— Richard Whately

Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do a play…

— Walter Matthau

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an…

— Ang Lee

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy…

— L. Todd Rose

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance,…

— Michael Welch

I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

— Hansika Motwani