My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea… — Meera Menon 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
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
“The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were… — Kimberley Griffiths Little Copy Share Image
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The butchering may continue as it will, it shall remain the historical guilt of the Western powers that they did not promptly… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
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