Quotes About Historical

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

La escatología no solo se ocupa de los acontecimientos del fin de los tiempos, también se ocupa del fin y del propósito divino para todos los acontecimientos históricos, lo cual es más importante.

History is fiction.

History is retroactive math

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

D'Arvit,' he blurted, shocked that Artemis's stories had been, in fact, historical rather than fictional. Sister Jeronima mistook the blurt for a sneeze. 'Bless you, chico,' she said. 'The night air is cool.' Myles did not bother to correct her, because an explanation would be difficult, considering that the word D'Arvit was a fairy swear word, according to Artemis's fairy tales.

Reconstruction revisionism arose in tandem with and provided a usable past for the civil rights movement. More than most historical subjects, Reconstruction history matters. Whatever the ebb and flow of historical interpretations, I hope we never lose sight of the fact that something very important for the future of our society was taking place during Reconstruction.

There may be a logical or historical reason why mid-Victorian English butchers should have been predominantly Conservative (a link with agriculture?) and grocers overwhelmingly Liberal (a link with overseas trade?), but none has been established, and perhaps what needs explaining is not this, but why these two omnipresent types of shopkeeper refused to share the same opinions, whatever they were.

women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.

c'est qu'après la mort du « compromis historique » à l'italienne, plus aucune opportunité ne s'est présentée pour que la guerre froide se termine par un « match nul ». La défaite du « camp socialiste » était en train de devenir inéluctable. Aujourd'hui, sans mérite, nous le savons ; en 1978, les Soviétiques ne le savaient pas.

Historically, Mary would be in her late teens because that is when, as best as we can determine, Jewish women in Judea and Galilee married in the late Second Temple period.

In contrast, I argue that their violence, seen in broad historical context, was no worse than that of others in a savage time, when heroes like Charlemagne (d. 814) killed and plundered on a much greater scale than the northern raiders.

It is not the absence of professional actors that is, historically, the hallmark of social realism nor of the Italian film. Rather, it is specifically the rejection of the star concept and the casual mixing of professionals and of those who just act occasionally. It is important to avoid casting the professional in the role for which he is known. The public should not be burdened with any preconceptions.

In the wake of the Communist victory in 1949 and the CCP's subsequent decades of lavish self-praise as heroes of the anti-Japanese resistance, the Nationalist war effort has often been overlooked and denigrated.31

Given the brief attention span of the American people, the liberation of tiny Kuwait eclipsed the fall of the Berlin Wall as a historical turning point.

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.

The historical achievements for my constituency and welfare schemes of the Modi government has touched each and every person and reached across each and every household.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.