Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Harkin

there is no constitutional or historical precedent for any kind of findings of fact.

David Hewson

Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

John Updike

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Karen Smith

We're the largest historical society in the south suburbs, and we're very proud of that.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

Anthony Swofford

We watched 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' before we went to war. It was pornography for us. They opened up this historical and psychological narrative. This is what men do when they go to war, we thought. It's a received image of war through film.

We've passed through the Lansdowne Historic District. It's beautiful.

Jim Talent

We ought to be using the confluence, celebrating it and using it for its historical preservation value, for its tourism value, and for raising the visibility of the area.

We can't tell exactly. We're going on historical data.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

We are seeing the pipeline, or the planning and construction stage for new hotels, at a historic low this year.

We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

E. O. Wilson

It is an honor to get it (the designation) and we hope it will instill a historic pride in our community.

David Irving

Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Eleanor Catton

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Bob Edwards

It has a lot of historic value, a lot of sentimental value.

Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Carl Jung

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Ludwig von Mises

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

Ludwig von Mises

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

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.

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.