Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness for God the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together let no man put asunder.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
I can't change history I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
It is I claim nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history beyond our language beyond the links that have united us for so long what unites us today is the future.
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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.
In retrospect the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
For the first time in the history of mankind one generation literally has the power to destroy the past the present and the future the power to bring time to an end.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
History is a relentless master. It has no present only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water but that's about it.
I grew up in Europe where the history comes from.
Throughout its history the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity friendship peace and universal understanding.
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability anarchy and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.