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Historical Quotes

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

Future Past Will Degree Historical

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

Love Little Historical Like Gestures

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

Nobody Know Others More Historical

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Gucci Pieces Historical Odd Happened

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Failure Lesson Military Historical

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Problem Admit Nation Historical

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Faith Christian Historical Wide

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

History Past Shape Historical Forces

My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.

Michel Foucault

Justice Control Within Historical

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Light You Now Always Historical Any

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

Research Energy Map Historical

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

World Interesting Strategy Historical

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

Me Play Move On Now Historical Move

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.

Culture Unique Things Historical

When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.

Place Mood Same Historical Working

September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

Richard N. Haass

Measure Tragedy New Point Historical

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Knowledge More Need Historical Depth

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Content Conscience Historical Modern

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Khaled Hosseini

Personal Historical Clear Claim Been

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Woman People Me Historical Speaking

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

World I Can Go Rock Historical

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

Reading Years Historical Gain Just

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

Bee Legacy Black Living Historical

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

Honor Museum Place Belong Historical

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