#historic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #historic




How many men can say, as I must, 'I am a man whose only friend is the King of England'? I have everything, you would think. And yet take Henry away, and I have nothing.


Hilary Mantel


#men

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury


T.K. Thorne


#aspergers #autism #historical-fiction #historical-fiction

Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.


George R.R. Martin


#genre-fiction #reading #historical-fiction

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.


Eloise Jarvis McGraw


#historical-fiction #ya-fiction #historical-fiction

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.


John Steinbeck


#historical-fiction

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. ~ Nancy B. Brewer


Nancy B. Brewer


#nancy-b-brewer #poems #quotes-to-live-by #widsom #historical-fiction

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.


Marge Piercy


#historical-fiction

Think ere you speak


Valerie Tripp


#historical-fiction

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.


Neal Stephenson


#humor #internet #neal #stephenson #wwii

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.


Walter Scott


#easier #examine #finds #historical #incredulity