Best 46 quotes in «historic quotes» category

Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the "hysteria" created by revelations about Jimmy Savile. It's a curious conclusion to draw from a "not guilty" verdict; there are courtrooms where the conviction rate is 100 per cent but they tend to be in totalitarian states. In serious criminal cases in England and Wales, the rate is around 82 per cent, and I would be seriously worried if every defendant were to be found guilty. The Independent, 9 February 2014

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

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

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!

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans.

What does that mean, historic regions? Is it older than unhistoric regions?" asked Roger

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

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

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most important advisers and closest confidants. Splendidly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert English and Elizabeth Tucker, his Six Years with Gorbachev is now available to everyone who wants to comprehend those final momentous events of the twentieth century.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

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

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

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.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third World. The First World is entering the long-predicted Secular Age, when science and knowledge dominate. The change promises to be another shift of civilization, like past departures of the era of kings, the time of slavery, the Agricultural Age, the epoch of colonialism, and the like. Such cultural transformations are partly invisible to contemporary people, but become obvious in retrospect.

All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't make it out. I wanted to bring them back to life and so, I wrote a book about them.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

Între petalele unei flori, în acea tăcere parfumată frumoasă în inconștiența ei, putem descoperi inocența sufletului nostru.

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.

My interests are varied. They include natural history, lady detectives, and good hygiene,” I said with a significant lift of the brows towards his feet. “What in seven hells does that mean?” he demanded. “It means that if you come to bed smelling like something from a barnyard again, I will scrub you myself with rose soap and a firm hand,” I threatened.

I don't mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch. - Hjalti Skjeggjason

It takes one person to rewrite the history book.

One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?