Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Karl Marx

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

Jeremy Siegel

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Paul Auster

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Paul Ricoeur

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

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.

Mike Huckabee

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East....

Niall Ferguson

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Noam Chomsky

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

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.

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.

Martha Grimes

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

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.

Terence McKenna

History is rooted in the future

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.