As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic 'ideals' of America-Jewry, Europe pits its metaphysical ideas, its faith in… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated.… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander 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
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
