Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

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

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

I am responsible only to God and history.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The best thing is being part of history and achieving something you've dreamed of.

We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.