Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Theodor Adorno

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

Marco Polo

Without stones there is no arch

Milan Kundera

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

John Shimkus

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

The historic reputation of a public hospital is the main thing we have to overcome.

Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

John Adams

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

This is a historic moment for me and all the skaters of Italy.

This is a historical moment. The support is incredible on this.

Lord Byron

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Andrew Luck

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

These historic indictments matter because they demonstrate to Milosevic's victims that the world cares,

It's an historic store. We'll be working to preserve it. Part of it could be office and part of it could be retail.

It's an historic road and a piece of history passed over the road. It's known nothing but history.

It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids.

This is really a historic and important occasion for us.

The Web throws all the historical ways of thinking about this stuff out the window. If I were going to start something today, that's what I'd do.

Tana French

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

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.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Robert Ballard

You don't let a historic site rot.