“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. — Tom Hulce Copy Share Image
“Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.” — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment,… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the… — Kenneth Goff 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
“Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic 'ideals' of America-Jewry, Europe pits its metaphysical ideas, its faith in… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“Eve.” He placed himself in front of her again. “We can’t have any more than today, but we can have today.” “What… — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The premiere was as exciting as the 1938 boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Lewis.” — Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen Copy Share Image
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
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