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I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it. — Destin Bays

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

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. — Douglas Coupland

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

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. — Peter Jackson

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end ! — Rajib Mukherjee

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst. — James Jones

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...? — Anne Rouen

Bear in mind that the novel
no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective
is always an historical projection of its own time. — Samuel R. Delany

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live — Christina Baker Kline

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished. — Nancy B. Brewer

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself. — Sarah Sundin

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner

Strange how a tiny hand could make the weight of his new responsibilities feel like a boulder on his chest. — Margaret Mallory

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England — Lauren Willig

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker — Adolf Hitler

You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man. — Liliana Shelbrook

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum. — Sara Sheridan

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe. — Francis Fukuyama

The worst mistake I ever made has become the best thing I ever did.

- Darius Wainwright — Jayne Fresina

This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. — Paulo Freire

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence? — Edmund Morgan

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people — Carlos Castaneda

Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder. — Peggy Ullman Bell

All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists. — George Monbiot

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order. — Dan Quayle

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical. — Thomas B. Macaulay

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive. — Heather Blanton

You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist. — M. Pierce

With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light. — Stuart Rojstaczer

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. — James C. Collins

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner

Yes, and you did it spectacularly. They were the best non words ever not spoken. — Robert Thier

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin. — Elizabeth Boyle

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been. — Luo Guanzhong

Fifth, the redemptive-historical significance of marriage as a divine symbol in the Bible only works if the marital couple is a complementary pair. — Kevin DeYoung

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. — Myrna Ericksen

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ... — Leila Meacham

Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory. — Peter Enns

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. — Kate Braverman

These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. — Aldous Huxley

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. — Gale Anne Hurd

I was torn apart. But you, my knight, you found all the pieces and put me back together. — Juliette Cross

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman

So you wish me to forget that you are a sheikh and a prince and a crown prince and soon to be King? That is a lot to forget. — Marguerite Kaye

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible. — Andrew Davidson

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'. — Cleopatra

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

The historical trajectory of violence affects not only how life is lived but how it is understood. — Steven Pinker

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question. — Arnold J. Toynbee

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. — Andy Goldsworthy