Quotes About Historical

It's a very good historical book about history.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

All history is contemporary history.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

Svenska Dagbladet var inte bara en ursinnigt antisovjetisk publikation, det var också den tidning den svenska motparten använde mest för att kanalisera sin aktivism; alla dessa ständiga bevislösa historier om Sovjetunionens militära aktiviteter runt Sveriges kust.

Could it be that racism is a sort of historical invention, a Satanic hoax?

The most potent song on the record was the masterpiece "Sympathy for the Devil." It was a historical essay on the power of Satan.

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science.

Por su parte, los sentimentales se aferraban a la Academia por sus reminiscencias históricas, y a su vez los melómanos la adoraban por su excelente acústica, una cualidad tan problemática en salas construidas para escuchar música.

The novel is alive and thriving through various strategies of renovation. The merging of fiction and reality, of memoir and narrative, is one great current source of strength. The reimagining of the historical novel is a second. And the third is the admission of new voices previously unheard or slienced.