Ya Historical Quotes

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.