Ya Historical Quotes

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

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.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

History is rooted in the future

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

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.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

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.

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

The man irritated her just like a rash.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

There are some things you never say good-bye to

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.