Quotes of: Historical-fact Keyword

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running aroun...

Thud!

In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that Bataille never tired of demonstrating: that violence has histo...

Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

I believe he's been asked to testify today," I told Lennox, who'd continued to track Truman's progress through the room. "He's a member of the historical undead, Truman Capote, the author. He wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood."... "Hi, T...

Pirate's Alley

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves." The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest...

Via Dolorosa & When Shall We Live?

There is either one Christ or there is none. If Jesus was not the eternal Son of God, equal in power and glory with the Father, then let's have done with all talk about Christianity. Let us admit honestly that we are Unitarians, Jews, Buddhists, or h...

What Do Presbyterians Believe?

After the disintegration of Christendom-a historical apparatus that gave cultural pride of place to Christianity-Christian truth claims cannot be taken for granted or simply asserted using logical apologetics. Rather, the truth of the faith appears t...

The World Is Not Ours to Save: Moving from Activist Causes to a Lifelong Calling

To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested only in increasing their control and any governance that came out of the government's acti...

Zaftan Entrepreneurs

Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Beth...

Cooking with Fernet Branca

The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated...

Murdering the Dead: Amadeo Bordiga on Capitalism and Other Disasters

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with ...

Ban Ki-moon

Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into the contract. This is an historic shift from a trust economy to a risk economy. But trust is not a dispensab...

Jonathan Sacks

Now, as it happens, theology is actually a pitilessly demanding discipline concerning an immense, profoundly sophisticated legacy of hermeneutics, dialectics, and logic; it deals in minute detail with a vast variety of concrete historical data; over ...

David Bentley Hart

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms...

Bill Bryson

True thinking takes place within a frame of continuous historical development in which progress in understanding is being made. . . . No constructive thinking that is worth while can be undertaken that sets at nought the intellectual labours of the c...

Life

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

The Common Reader

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Dorsai!

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

Armistead Maupin

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

Jane Krakowski

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

Nicole Holofcener

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Alain Robert

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

Kathy Mattea