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There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But — Leo Tolstoy

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

to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction — Tina Gabrielle

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

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms

Even through her coat, he could feel the curve of her arm, making him aware of their differences.
Man and woman.
Hard and soft. — Debra Holland

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all. — Pamela Clare

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

I could still box your ears."
"Nonsense," he scoffed. "You couldn't reach that high. — Anne Gracie

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous. — Mark Sheppard

All societies are historical. — Raymond Queneau

He rose up like a languid god after devouring a bountiful feast. — Paula Quinn

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

the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those — Yuval Noah Harari

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

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I could not give her my heart, because it already belonged to another; for I have only loved once. — Anne Rouen

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

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

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

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible. — Antony Beevor

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence. — Demosthenes

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

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

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

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

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

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went. — Lauren Willig

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. — Mario Bunge

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

Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over."
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy. — Hillary Clinton

It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward. — Jayne Fresina

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

All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes. — Otto E. Neugebauer

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt. — Steven B. Weissman

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

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative. — Camilla Lackberg

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences. — Sergei Lavrov

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction. — Kelly Gardiner

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

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

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

Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change) — H. El-Tahwagi

War's all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]
God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well. — Pamela Clare

One cowboy is never enough. — Vanessa Vale

Faction" is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction. — Martin Herman

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

History is rooted in the future — Terence McKenna

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin

Think ere you speak — Valerie Tripp

When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people — Cesar Hidalgo

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim

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

At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses. — Shelly Thacker

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

It is true, Monsieur, that when you die, the ones who love you come for you ... I have seen it. — Anne Rouen

She loved historical novels in which women dressed as men and outgrew their limited opportunities. And — Nina George

There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild. — Werner Sombart

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

I just love historical fiction. — Jennifer Donnelly

He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall. — Orna Ross

If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody. — Jina Bacarr

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more. — K. Webster

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

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