Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home they export it in a certain way by war they make it tour the world.
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Eventually we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace contentment happiness strength fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
I've gotten to a point where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
You know be able to do something great in your life you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927 I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.