Historical Quotes · Page 25

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create…

— Michael Morpurgo

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out…

— Monica Lewinsky

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the…

— Ron Paul

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.

— Franz Grillparzer

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

— Terence McKenna

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

— Stella McCartney

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

— Charles Foster Johnson

I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I…

— Zainab Salbi

The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a…

— James Howard Kunstler

The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air…

— Wright Patman

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations,…

— Joan D. Vinge

This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it…

— Arthur Golden

In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old,…

— Heinrich August Winkler

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of…

— Henry James

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected…

— Lloyd deMause

The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by…

— Ross Garnaut

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired…

— Lauren Willig

I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students…

— John Lewis Gaddis

It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I…

— Dave Hunt

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

— Milan Kundera

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions.…

— Peter O'Toole

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed…

— Marie Curie

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

— Lee Strobel

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

— Melissa Farley

“These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice , Rose Justice?”

— Elizabeth Wein

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

— Aldo Leopold

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

— Walter Benjamin

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in…

— Jeffrey Deitch

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote…

— Karl Marx

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be…

— Andrew Jackson

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

— A'Lelia Bundles

“It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.”

— John Bowlby

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson