Top 1200 Historical Perspective Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

I love being educated by historical novels.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I invented the historical spy novel.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

I'm a big historical-fiction fan.

Cry Baby is about Cry Baby and the next album [which I think I have a title for but I don't wanna say anything yet because I don't know and it's too early] is a place in the weird town that I'm trying to create and its Cry Baby's perspective throughout this album. You're not learning about her, you're learning about the place that she's in and her perspective. Down the line for sure I will think of other characters in this world.

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

I like mythology - anything historical.

I don't normally do pure historical work.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Saint Petersburg has a fantastic historical atmosphere.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

Historical science is being left in the dust.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

I just love historical fiction.

My drug of choice is historical research.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

It's a very good historical book about history.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

I like writing historical fiction.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.