Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart. — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon… — Sergio Ramos Copy Share Image
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
“Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing. His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat… — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards… — Jonathan Hickman 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's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I know what a bozo I really am. And it's healthier for me to look at myself as a regular human being… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner. — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
