Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't… — Michael N. Castle 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
Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should… — Bayard Louis Copy Share Image
The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES! — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
