Ahistorical Quotes

#1. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.

J. Rufus Fears

#2. To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#3. I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Kurt Andersen

#4. A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

Juliet Mitchell

#5. Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.

Stephanie Coontz

#6. This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

Harry S. Truman

#7. Male dominance in society always means that out of public sight, in the private, ahistorical world of men with women, men are sexually dominating women.

Andrea Dworkin

#8. I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

Marcel Proust

#9. My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

Alexander Ovechkin

#10. Never go shopping for kiwis in a shoe store.

Karen Salmansohn

#11. I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

Iman

#12. Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.

Forest Whitaker

#13. When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Orson Scott Card

#14. It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person 'lacks empathy' is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.

Liz Becker