The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry American Journalist More Dave Barry Quotes 3
The church is part of a cultural precinct that includes the museum and historical society, theatre, school, library and community college. Rob Drew More Rob Drew Quotes 1
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel More Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes 1
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. Dick Thornburgh American Politician More Dick Thornburgh Quotes 0
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. Robert Towne American Actor More Robert Towne Quotes 0
The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. David Trimble Irish Politician More David Trimble Quotes 0
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. Moshe Sharett Israeli Statesman More Moshe Sharett Quotes 0
Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history. Antony Sher South African Writer More Antony Sher Quotes 0
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah. Julius Wellhausen German Educator More Julius Wellhausen Quotes 0
And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation. Julius Wellhausen German Educator More Julius Wellhausen Quotes 0
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. Wendell Willkie American Lawyer More Wendell Willkie Quotes 0
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Hu Shih Chinese Philosopher More Hu Shih Quotes 0
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. Hu Shih Chinese Philosopher More Hu Shih Quotes 0
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. John Shimkus American Politician More John Shimkus Quotes 0
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. Jenny Shipley New Zealander Statesman More Jenny Shipley Quotes 0
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. Georg Simmel German Sociologist More Georg Simmel Quotes 0
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. Georg Simmel German Sociologist More Georg Simmel Quotes 0
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. Georg Simmel German Sociologist More Georg Simmel Quotes 0
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. August Wilson American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. E. O. Wilson American Scientist More E. O. Wilson Quotes 0
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. John Wilson Scottish Writer More John Wilson Quotes 0
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. Jeanette Winterson British Novelist More Jeanette Winterson Quotes 0
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag American Author More Susan Sontag Quotes 0