Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options. — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
“The use of historical events and places in this novel are a respectful mix of fact and poetic license.” — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism — Nancy Hartsock Copy Share Image
The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be… — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry,” he said in a soft voice while leaning closer to her, “for taking liberties earlier. I hope I didn’t offend… — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai Copy Share Image
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Her name is Arabelle.” Marius felt her name sink into his chest like a long-ago lullaby waiting to be sung again.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
“He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“I am Calumny Spinks. Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose. It has swung there in the faintest… — Piers Alexander Copy Share Image
I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry 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
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
