The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
“I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third… — Jina Bacarr 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
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image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
“Her breath caught when his erection shot to rigid. "Merciful Father, Ye're like a stallion with a mare in heat.” — Amy Jarecki 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
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to… — Robert Dick Wilson Copy Share Image
It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.” — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
It seems like journalism over here in UK, in general, is at a higher level: not overrun by all these teeny little… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard referred to as Abdullah… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the… — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions -… — Andrew Napolitano Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image