Top 1200 Historical Perspective Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see culture from the perspective of humans, which is what they study. From their perspective, or, from some of their perspectives, it's sort of heresy to even talk about culture in any other animal. Others would say, "Yeah, you can talk about it, but our definitions of culture are so utterly different from yours and include things like values, and so on, which you've never shown to exist in any of these other creatures."

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

Fortunately or unfortunately, 'Baahubali' has become a benchmark for all historical-costume dramas.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

I love Delhi for its historical value and the variety of food it offers.

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

Being a part of the Women of Honor championship tournament is historical.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.