Ya Historical Quotes
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.
How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.
The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.