Historical Quotes
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
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.
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.
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.
Do you plan on marrying Charles?”She shook her head.“Good. I wouldn’t want to shoot him, but I would."... Finding Promise
Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.
For the space of many, many years, you were enough for me. You were my bliss, and my hallelujah.
Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my husband and my boy. I will not let harm come to either of them.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.
If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.
I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
What’s bosoms?” Cade asked.“You’ll find out when you get older, ” Jake said."A lot older, " Colt said.Last Promise
All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.
That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?
Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.
True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.
You were kidnapped not?""I was kidnapped.""You were forced not into marriage?""I was forced into marriage.""You want not an annulment?""I want not an annulment.
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen
You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.
Sneezeweed, Drew?"He grinned. "Jealous?""Surprised.""Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips.""Promise?""Absolutely.
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.
I didn't care, because I loved him, and that was the end of every argument and the beginning of every promise.
I know a feeling like that only comes once in a lifetime, and I think you should follow your heart’s desires. I believe in love, and I know love conquers all.
It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.
God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.
I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.
I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.