Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

A lot of people would say history is important because it helps us to predict the future. I don't think that it does particularly. What it really teaches you is that things have not always been the same, and they don't have to be the way they are.

There's a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us, but wearing crinolines. They lived in different worlds.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

History belongs to everyone. I don't think you have to give up scholarly standards. But I also don't think you want to write something that is impenetrable. You try as hard as you can to be readable.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.

The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.