It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage. — Sonu Sood Copy Share Image
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want… — Jayne Fresina Copy Share Image
“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
Even a lame-duck president can be affected by a clear midterm message if he wants to see his vice president elected and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I always tell students that the first question to ask about any historical action is this: who makes money out of the… — Carl R Trueman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“To the extent that it remains true to itself, the historical method not only has to investigate the biblical word as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
