In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“From here onwards, the old adage "may you live in interesting times" shall be regarded as the casting of a curse!!” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang 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
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw and Ron Dibiase help each other out doing history assignments out together. They are best buddies. Brandon McCaw and Ron… — Brandon Mccaw Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky 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
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events… — William Wyler 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
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
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
“In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon 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
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
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