The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh 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 know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It has been said that a poem should not mean but be. This is not quite accurate. In a poem, as distinct… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining. — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
