Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

It is very odd that it would not have to go to a vote of the people like the three historic towns had to do,

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

George Henry Lewes

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

George H. W. Bush

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

George H. W. Bush

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Julian Barnes

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

Jean Nouvel

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

Francis Walsingham

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Horace Greeley

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

I don't think they know this is a valuable historic asset.

James Daly

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

Jacques Barzun

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

James Buchanan

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

Milan Kundera

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lee Strobel

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

Lance Reddick

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

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.

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.