Famous Quotes & Sayings

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

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.

Milan Kundera

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

John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Jonathan Lethem

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Lee Strobel

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Malcolm Gladwell

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Oliver Stone

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Oliver Stone

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Lance Reddick

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Lion Feuchtwanger

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

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.

Ron Paul

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Shelby Foote

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Leslie Fiedler

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Sharon Kay Penman

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

Karl Jaspers

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

Julius Wellhausen

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Heinrich Heine

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Henry Fielding

The dignity of history.

Heinrich Schliemann

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 geographers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Francois Hollande

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

Hamish Bowles

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Joseph Boyden

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

Joss Whedon

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