After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else,… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Christians aren’t making a religious claim when they say Jesus rose from the grave. They’re making a historical one; they’re saying that… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies. — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“As an American historian, I will be correcting the historical record for the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm to be a true, accurate… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern. — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
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