What was, was. The past defines itself. Historians refuse to accept that definition
L.E. Modesitt Jr.Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: history historians dracula infidel
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: life past passion history goodness dracula
Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
Malcolm LowryTag: politics determinism history fate destiny nations karma geopolitics just-desserts
Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatized by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way.
The man feels a great fraternity with those birds. He feels he carries, like them, a shredded inheritance, and he is too concussed to pass anything on.
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.
R.E. GraswichTag: politics history sports business
The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period
Thomas L. ThompsonTag: history fantasy skepticism myths tradition israel folklore middle-east historicity-of-the-bible assyria
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: history miracle human prophecy prophets 21-century
All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied and written. All history is also personal, since it is impossible to avoid the influence of one's own opinions and prejudices on the selection and emphasis of one's historical material.
Paul CartledgeTag: history historiography
Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.
Rebecca SolnitTag: history home self body 232
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