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Historical Quotes

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Religion Healing Knife Historical

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

Facts Historical Indispensable Simply

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

Over Years Historical Last Been How

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

School Law Writing Plan Historical

I like mythology - anything historical.

Anything Historical Mythology Like

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Women Long Historical Experiments

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

Religion Doubt Matters Historical

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

Design More Inspiration Historical

In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.

Son Relationship Places Historical

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Ignorance Direction Look Historical

I would like to be in tons of different types of movies and do different things. I like action movies, and with 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman', I got to see a historical movie, too.

Action Movies See Things Historical

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Research Skills Gathering Historical

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

Past Me American Always Historical

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

Hate Me Research Enjoy Historical

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Steven Spielberg

Historical Because License Like List

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

Abdolkarim Soroush

God People Understanding Historical

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

Country Historical Where English

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

Find Say Evidence Fiction Historical

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

Fun Reading Historical Dry Books

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Historical Necessity Cannot Actions

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.

Deborah Harkness

Details Discovery Historical Witches

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

Men Short Fat Historical Horrible

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

Three Historical Kinds Prophetic

Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Hope Medical Names Mess Historical

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