Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Gorbachev

The new European Soviet.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

Prescott Bush

Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.

Kingsley Amis

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Paul Ricoeur

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Larry Wall

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Patricia McConnell

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

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.

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Seth Grahame-Smith

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Sebastian Horsley

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Nick Clooney

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

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.

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 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.'

It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids.

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.