Quotes of: Historical Keyword

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Sara Sheridan

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Jaspers

Historically, my lack of success; had a direct correlation with me silencing my authenticity. Summon the strength to stand in your truth.

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Leon Wieseltier

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

Michael Hirst

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Mary Doria Russell

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

Michael Rostovtzeff

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Marcus Samuelsson

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Nicholas A. Christakis

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Minna Antrim

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Norman Lamm

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Joss Whedon

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

Mario Monti

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Max Weber

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Steven Weber

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag