We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years,… — George W. Malone Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It does happen to be a historical fact that my husband served as president for eight years. And there's a lot that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
“His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard referred to as Abdullah… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk… — Prince William Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
