Historical Quotes

It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself when I get to hell?

Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?

Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train.

I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created.

Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.

My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

There is no such thing as a historical fatality there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history.

She is my friend, and there is nothing you can say or do that can stop me from helping her.

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.”“That could have happened to anyone!

You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

You asked if I loved her? I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.

Every great day has a story and a song!

Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.

Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

People spoke in whispers, as if the war was listening

No one lives long in a war. I don't want to lose you as well.

Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.

History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.

It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

How things change, ’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.

She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction

He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.

According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.

Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive, ” says Ora.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

The written word is the greatest sacred documentation.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any better at goalkeeping.

And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control until he heard her cry his name and they fell together off the edge of the world.

Books are keys that open many doors.

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.

She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.

She ran. Deeper, deeper into the mysterious Broceliande forest...

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.