The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude… — Paul L. Maier Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving… — David Cook Copy Share Image
Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“You are entitled to feel all the bitterness and hatred you were taught. You are entitled to carry with you the pain… — Tracie Peterson Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
“You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end,… — David Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton 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
“Jill, a comprehensive school teacher in her early thirties, has put her dark past behind her to become a lady in control… — Jan Hunter Copy Share Image
They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image