Nation Quote by Eavan Boland

“You see, only defeat forces things to change. When losing, we feel reborn and we find the guts to live again by performing the…

— Manos Hadjidakis

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions…

— Jim Harrison

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who…

— Paul Bourget

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

— John Dryden

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify…

— Dan Brown

“We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.”

— Niall Ferguson

It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then…

— Jennifer Beals

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

— Anita Shreve

“The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation into humility, to strive always to triumph over the darkness while…

— Dean Koontz

“If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony without an…

— Emil Cioran

“for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to…

— Abraham Lincoln