If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in… — James Welch Copy Share Image
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren 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
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it… — Isa Blagden Copy Share Image
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts… — Lila Abu-Lughod Copy Share Image
“I may not have journeyed to other lands, but a trip through the fairy glade is a journey few others have taken,… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is… — John Green Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If… — Nicola Cornick Copy Share Image
Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible… — Sefton Delmer Copy Share Image
I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image