The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it.
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.
I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
