History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

History is and should be a science.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

She kissed him like he was a warrior

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger." "Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you." "Sparky?

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.