A Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

My wish is to humanize history.

Svetlana Alexievich

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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian - Journalist
Born: May 31, 1948

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Danny K. Davis

History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.

Bill Nye

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

James McBride

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

Mahmoud Darwish

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Jim Rohn

With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

Steven Spielberg

I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play.

Virginia C. Andrews

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor

I always try to humanize a character.

Atul Kulkarni

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

C.P. Snow

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

Viola Davis

I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs. I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims, Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare, Wish America had universal health care... Cause ain't no help here.

Ed O.G.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

Guillermo del Toro

Make a wish," said Indigo. Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?" "That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones." "Does it matter how fast they move?" "I don't think so." "Can you wish on airplanes, too?" "Oh, yes.

Hilary McKay

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Walter Dean Myers

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