Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia McConnell

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania.

She was so happy. It was a historic day. They were happy.

Jim Leach

Burlington has done really well on historic preservation.

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Herbert Marcuse

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Herbert Marcuse

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

George W. Bush

Our aim is a democratic peace.

George W. Bush

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

George W. Bush

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

George W. Bush

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

George R. R. Martin

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Henning Mankell

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

Chris Hedges

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

Franz Boas

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Jeaniene Frost

After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one. ~Cat

Jeremy Jackson

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Jeffery Deaver

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Gale Anne Hurd

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan,

John Deane

But he said now seemed to be the time -- that he wanted to get it on the historical record,

Housing inventory levels improved in July, but they're still quite lean by historic standards,

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

E. O. Wilson

It is an honor to get it (the designation) and we hope it will instill a historic pride in our community.

David Irving

Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,