Historical Quotes

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

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

The New Testament is not a historical document.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

All societies are historical.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

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

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

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

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

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.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

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

In any film there's always a historical implication.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.

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

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

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.

The new European Soviet.

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.