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The dignity of history. — Henry Fielding

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history. — Amira Hass

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record. — Patricia Leavy

History has a Nemesis for every sin. — Theodor Mommsen

happy is the nation without a history — Cesare Beccaria

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction. — Kedar Joshi

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

History never repeats itself - but historical situations recur." As — Arthur C. Clarke

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history. — Martin Buber

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

It's history as it should have happened. It's history made better. — R.A. McCandless

West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence. — P.J. Parker

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose. — Meghan Masterson

They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited. — William Stafford

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters. — Aurin Squire

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it. — John Cleese

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

The Day of Trouble is Near — P.J. Parker

You are charismatic. Men are drawn to you. I am drawn to you. And by your size, let alone your skill with weapons, they will be in awe of you. — Amy Jarecki

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

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. — Thomas Carlyle

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary. — Lorraine Toussaint

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. — James A. Garfield

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry. — Archibald F. Bennett

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet? — P.J. Parker

This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power. — P.J. Parker

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history — Peter Cunningham

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way. — Paul W. Feenstra

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights. — Matthew Pearl

Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do. — George W. Norris

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. — Samuel Johnson

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present. — Laila Lalami

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda

Rumors are the children of truth. — Danny M. Cohen

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate. — P. J. O'Rourke

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. — Alexandre Dumas

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar! — Ted Anthony Roberts

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction. — Candace Camp

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. — Kara Walker

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use. — Henry Adams

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. — Ludwig Von Mises

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. — Pete Sampras

Unbridled passion with an incredibly hot seven hundred-year-old Highlander in the middle of the night? Mm Yeah. Bring it on. — Amy Jarecki

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. — Oscar Wilde

Hanging out is good historical methodology. — Jean Pfaelzer

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong. — Steven J. Carroll

LEGEND IS HISTORICAL, JUST AS HISTORY IS LEGENDARY. — Anonymous

History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them. — Aziz Hamza

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis

It's a very good historical book about history. — Dan Quayle

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock! — Katherine Givens

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. — Martin Heidegger

Historical gap is created due to missing written records. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do. — P.J. Parker

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other. — Bryant McGill

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. — John E. Rankin

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. — Nicolas Bentley

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. — Isaiah Berlin

Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others. — Aurin Squire

Through enjoyment we endure. — Florence Ditlow

History is rooted in the future — Terence McKenna

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. — Samuel E. Morison

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. — Nancy B. Brewer

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason ... — Andrea Zuvich

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. — Bernard DeVoto

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

No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today. — A.J. Muste

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said. — Hilary Mantel

History shows us a window into our past. Historical fiction can take us by the and and lead us into that world. — Judith Geary

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

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. — Robert Fulghum

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made. — Richard Handler

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson

Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures. — Sara Sheridan

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. — Arthur Keith

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited. — Thomas Berry

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse

Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. — C.V. Wedgwood

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. — P.J. Sullivan

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history. — Glenn Porter