Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.” — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then. — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
