Historical Quotes

Historical Quote of the day

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Anything from Kipling

You have not known very many men.""I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

Rumors are the children of truth.

If I kiss you now, I won't be able to stop.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne?She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'""Women don't have opinions.""Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.

I would be anyone if only I could be with you.

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom?

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

Now that you made me a knight again", he said lightly, "I'll have to keep my mind on certain knightly virtues like chastity."Ciara could not remember that ever being a knightly virtue.

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Mama says love is a sickness of the heart. Only the weak fall under its spell.

Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. "Rugged land for a rugged man.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

Ho! Wise men say, 'He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.'"Drew smiled. "I have a good and ready memory.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

How can one fight for a love that acts as the enemy?

I've tried to deny it even to myself...My heart and soul are filled with you.

The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady.""You are not asking.""Aye.

For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.

And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.

Clear vision holds the key.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

Let the game be ventured!