Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Paul Volcker

A global economy requires a global currency.

Mary Pope Osborne

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

Martin Buber

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

Martin Buber

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

Polybius

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Rick Perlstein

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

Thomas Nagel

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

Thomas Huxley

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot.

Robert Anton Wilson

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Sandra Cisneros

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Walter Benjamin

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Wilfred Owen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Thomas Jefferson

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Thomas Friedman

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Hal Borland

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

Glen Cook

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Jeremy Bentham

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.