“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.” “No, Katie,”… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist.… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible… The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The reason we've been growing at 1.8 percent for the last eight, ten years, which is way below the historical average, is… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots,… — Doug McAdam Copy Share Image
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
