Historical Quotes

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

Samantha Power

HumanOutRightsDecideHistorical

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.

Jeremy Jackson

SaidOldOutIngredientsHistorical

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

Olivier Theyskens

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If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.

John Legend

ActionYouLookRailroadHistorical

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

Karl Liebknecht

GreatCountryDefendYesHistorical

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

LosingNewOldHistoricalTraditions

Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

Haris Pasovic

MoreEuropeComplexHistoricalUnion

Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.

Stephen Kinzer

PeaceSpecialWithoutHistorical

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

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I am not very moved by historical apologies.

Tom Paulin

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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.

Edmund Morgan

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Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Mike Pence

DataTaxWillIncome TaxHistorical

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Barbara Cartland

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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Loretta Napoleoni

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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

Deanna Raybourn

MysteryRomanceGooseHistorical

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

Brian Ferneyhough

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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Antony Beevor

GreatPotentialFictionHistorical

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Peter Jackson

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The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Steinbeck

ProveNeverHistoricalInfluences

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Nicola Cornick

WritingEnjoyRomanceHistorical

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

Richard Dawkins

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One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Lynn Abbey

GreatHistoricalTriviaPassions

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Kevin McCloud

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

James Purefoy

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