If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.” — James Franck Copy Share Image
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I love you, Louise Downe McCord. You drive me absolutely crazy sometimes, and this is one of those times, but I love… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You are my heart,” he (Eryx) said…. “I will kill any man and turn the whole world to ash for you, my… — Jaclyn Osborn Copy Share Image
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical,… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher… — C. V. Wedgwood 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
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett Copy Share Image
[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don’t live to see what people do to their visions.” — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but… — Ted Anthony Roberts Copy Share Image
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
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