710 Quotes About Historical

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

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

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

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.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.