Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marco Polo

Without stones there is no arch

Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

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.

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.

Andrew Luck

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

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

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.

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.

Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

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.

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.

Lord Byron

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

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.

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.