Historical Quotes · Page 28

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

— Steve Vai

“Her breath caught when his erection shot to rigid. "Merciful Father, Ye're like a stallion with a mare in heat.”

— Amy Jarecki

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

— Donald Trump

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

— Jeffery Deaver

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to…

— August Wilson

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but…

— Patricia McConnell

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are…

— Tim Reid

What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise…

— Clarence Francis

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of…

— Rollo May

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more…

— Barbara Tuchman

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from…

— Bat for Lashes

“Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my…

— D.E. Stevenson

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Ale każdy wie, że u nas władza świecka tak samo jak i moja służyć ma jeno Najwyższemu Panu i rozdzielić tego się…

— Tomasz Kowalski

“It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived…

— Roberta Gellis

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...…

— Donna J. Haraway

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also…

— David Rockefeller

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his…

— Paul Feyerabend

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long…

— Michael Hirst

We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results…

— Justin Menkes

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

— Jeremy Siegel

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

— Edgar Dale

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

— Richard Strauss

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect…

— Carlos Castaneda

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic…

— Scipio Africanus

When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are…

— Vilhelm Moberg

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.

— Andre Vltchek

“Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

— Ned Beauman

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

— Ai Weiwei

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

— Fareed Zakaria

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

— Mary Doria Russell

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

— Mikhail Gorbachev