“Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer. — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“As an American historian, I will be correcting the historical record for the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm to be a true, accurate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme,… — Richard Ballantine Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate… — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image