Historic Quotes

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

Get it out of your historic head.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma black hole.'

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

In recent years, we've made historic investments in NATO, increased America's presence in Europe.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.

There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

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We will either find a way, or make one.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!

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I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.