The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.