Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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.'

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

We know the history of players at Real Madrid and things are not easy at that club.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an inventive gift for storytelling. I also loved immersing myself in works of nonfiction that taught me something about the world, that made the past come alive or shed light on hidden corners of history or the news.

Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

History will judge me... I shall remain silent.

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Black history is American history.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?