Historical Quotes · Page 24

“The Postman rings twice, but the Insurance man rings until he collects"-Scott G. Brown”

— Scott G. Brown II

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

— Jon Turteltaub

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

— Julius Wellhausen

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

— Samantha Power

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden

“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” —Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn”

— Jina Bacarr

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,…

— Leslie Fiedler

If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is…

— Dan Brown

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,…

— Susan Choi

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history…

— Ruth May Fox

For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for…

— Victor Ponta

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority…

— Bertrand Russell

Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very…

— Hershel Shanks

I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do,…

— Will Cotton

Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,…

— Mary Ruefle

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go…

— Ben Quayle

. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have…

— Anonymous

I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not…

— Lauren Greenfield

A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide…

— Pope John Paul II

Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008…

— Noam Chomsky

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

— Anthony Burgess

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

— Karl Jaspers

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

— Nicolas Bentley

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The…

— George Santayana

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

— James Purefoy

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

— Carl Jung

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

— Robert M. Price

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

— Edward Gibbon

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon…

— Sergio Ramos

“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live”

— Michael G. Kramer