Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me — Douglas Bader Copy Share Image
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the… — William Webb Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
“If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong, For he never goes a-travelling but he takes his… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
The power of the Marxian critique of class domination stands as an implicit suggestion that feminists should consider the advantages of adopting… — Nancy Hartsock Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character. — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. — Louis Bachelier Copy Share Image
“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
“Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.” — The Instruction of Ptahhotop Copy Share Image
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
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