You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.
