If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We had been through so much together, mrs. Kennedy and me. More than anyone can imagine. More than anyone can ever know.” — Clint Hill Copy Share Image
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents. — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt. — Armond White Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries,… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image