Quotes of: Historical Keyword

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

George R. R. Martin

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Josh McDowell

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

Chase the Moon: A Historical Romance

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

As learnèd commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

Jonathan Swift's on Poetry: A Rapsody--A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Holliday Grainger

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

William Gibson

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

Raymond Queneau

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of othe...

Lauren Willig

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

Allen Tate

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel

was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.

The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Theodor Herzl

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

Colm Meaney

vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.

David Brooks

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'

Emma Donoghue

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geograph...

Heinrich Schliemann

Historically inaccurate.' Adrian gestured at me with his other hand, the one not on my shoulder. "Who the hell looks at you and says 'historically inaccurate'?

The Golden Lily

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life